Microconfined high-pressure transcritical channel flow database: Laminar, transitional & turbulent regimes

A Abdellatif, C Monteiro, M Bernades, L Jofre - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
The potential of comprehending and managing microscale flows to enhance energy
processes, especially in heat transfer and propulsion applications, remains largely untapped …

[HTML][HTML] Microconfined high-pressure transcritical fluid turbulence

M Bernades, F Capuano, L Jofre - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Microfluidics technology has grown rapidly over the past decades due to its high surface-to-
volume ratios, flow controllability, and length scales efficiently suited for interacting with …

Thermophysical analysis of microconfined turbulent flow regimes at supercritical fluid conditions in heat transfer applications

M Bernades, L Jofre - Journal of Heat Transfer, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The technological opportunities enabled by understanding and controlling microscale
systems have not yet been capitalized to disruptively improve energy processes, especially …

On micro-electrokinetic scalar turbulence in microfluidics at a low Reynolds number

G Wang, F Yang, W Zhao, CP Chen - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We recently demonstrated the direct observation of micro-electrokinetic turbulence in a
microchannel at a low Reynolds number (Re) when a pressure-driven flow was forced …

Mixing and flow transition in an optimized electrokinetic turbulent micromixer

K Nan, Y Shi, T Zhao, X Tang, Y Zhu, K Wang… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Micromixer is a key element in a lab on a chip for broad applications in the analysis and
measurement of chemistry and engineering. Previous investigations reported that …

Controlled synthesis of metal-organic frameworks via AC electrokinetic mixing-assisted microfluidics: A case study of ZIF-8

S Chen, X Zhou, G Li, F Yang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have great potential for a wide range of applications
given their flexible structures and pore networks. Morphology control directly affects the …

Effects of side profile on acoustic streaming by oscillating microstructures in channel

L Lin, H Dang, R Zhu, Y Liu, H You - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
In microchannels, microstructure-induced acoustic streaming can be achieved at low
frequencies, providing simple platforms for biomedicine and microfluidic manipulation …

Onset of Nonlinear Electroosmotic Flow under an AC Electric Field

Z Hu, W Zhao, Y Chen, Y Han, C Zhang… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nonlinearity of electroosmotic flows (EOFs) is ubiquitous and plays a crucial role in ion
transport, specimen mixing, electrochemistry reaction, and electric energy storage and …

Transition from periodic to chaotic AC electroosmotic flows near electric double layer

Z Hu, T Zhao, W Zhao, F Yang, H Wang, K Wang… - AIChE …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electroosmotic flows (EOFs) on insulated interfacial surface commonly exists as interfacial
flows. Previously theoretical studies indicate that EOFs of Newtonian fluids on the insulated …

Scaling of velocity and scalar structure functions in ac electrokinetic turbulence

W Zhao, G Wang - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Electrokinetic (EK) turbulence or electrohydrodynamic (EHD) turbulence has been recently
achieved in different fluids under both ac [G. Wang, Lab Chip 14, 1452 (2014) …