The flow equations or exact RG equations for the Higgs Top System are solved to leading order in 1/Nc. This allows to relate arbitrary bare actions with this field content continuously to effective low energy theories, and we find the flow converging towards general renormalizable models. The assumption of a bare action of the generalized Nambu-Jona-Lasinio type does not restrict the parameters...

We report the in situ generation of pH gradients in microfluidic devices for biofabrication of freestanding, semi-permeable chitosan membranes. The pH-stimuli-responsive polysaccharide chitosan was enlisted to form a freestanding hydrophilic membrane structure in microfluidic networks where pH gradients are generated at the converging interface between a slightly acidic chitosan solution and a ...

In this article, the extensional flow and viscosity and the converging-diverging geometry were examined as the basis of the peculiar viscoelastic behavior in porous media. The modified Bautista-Manero model, which successfully describes shearthinning, elasticity and thixotropic time-dependency, was used for modeling the flow of viscoelastic materials which also show thixotropic attributes. An a...

We study the flow of a Newtonian fluid through microfabricated hyperbolic contractions in detail. A set of planar converging geometries, with total Hencky strains ranging from 1 to 3.7, have been fabricated in order to produce a homogeneous extensional flow field within the contraction. The kinematics in the contraction region are investigated experimentally by means of micro particle image vel...