Reconfigurable microfluidics

F Paratore, V Bacheva, M Bercovici… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Lab-on-a-chip devices leverage microfluidic technologies to enable chemical and biological
processes at small scales. However, existing microfluidic channel networks are typically …

Magnetism and microfluidics

N Pamme - Lab on a Chip, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetic forces are now being utilised in an amazing variety of microfluidic applications.
Magnetohydrodynamic flow has been applied to the pum** of fluids through …

Micro-magnetofluidics in microfluidic systems: A review

RJ Yang, HH Hou, YN Wang, LM Fu - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2016 - Elsevier
Ferrofluids have many traditional applications in the electrical, mechanical and optical fields,
including transformers, dampers, imaging systems, and so on. However, in more recent …

Single-phase fluid flow and mixing in microchannels

V Kumar, M Paraschivoiu, KDP Nigam - Chemical Engineering Science, 2011 - Elsevier
In the last decade there has been an exponential increase in microfluidic applications due to
high surface-to-volume ratios and compactness of microscale devices, which makes them …

Ferrofluid-based microchip pump and valve

H Hartshorne, CJ Backhouse, WE Lee - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2004 - Elsevier
Fluid control is a key element in the performance of microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices. The
development of integrated multi-function micro-chemical reactors and analysis platforms …

Magneto-hydrodynamics based microfluidics

S Qian, HH Bau - Mechanics research communications, 2009 - Elsevier
In microfluidic devices, it is necessary to propel samples and reagents from one part of the
device to another, stir fluids, and detect the presence of chemical and biological targets …

Entropy generation of electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) flow in a curved rectangular microchannel

Y Liu, Y Jian, W Tan - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
The entropy generation analysis of electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) flow of Newtonian
fluids through a curved rectangular microchannel is performed in this study. Under the …

Towards numerical prototy** of labs-on-chip: modeling for integrated microfluidic devices

D Erickson - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2005 - Springer
This review article presents an overview of some of the tools, techniques and applications of
numerical simulation for integrated microfluidic devices. Provided is a broad overview of the …

Unsteady electromagnetohydrodynamic flow of couple stress fluid through a microchannel: A theoretical analysis

T Siva, S Jangili, B Kumbhakar, PK Mondal - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigate the transient electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) flow of non-
Newtonian fluid in a narrow/micro-fluidic channel. We consider the couple stress fluid (CSF) …

Electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) micropump of Jeffrey fluids through two parallel microchannels with corrugated walls

D Si, Y Jian - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
By employing the perturbation method, the approximate analytical solutions of velocity and
volume flow rate are presented for electromagnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) flow of an …