The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels
has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional …

Microfluidics has experienced massive growth in the past two decades, and especially with
advances in rapid prototy** researchers have explored a multitude of channel structures …

The fast growth of microfluidic applications based on complex fluids is a result of the unique
fluid dynamics of these systems, enabling the creation of devices for health care or …

Focusing and sorting cells and particles utilizing microfluidic phenomena have been
flourishing areas of development in recent years. These processes are largely beneficial in …

Abstract Systems made by particles in viscoelastic liquids are ubiquitous in a variety of
industrial and biological applications. Much work has been done in the last half-century in …

We perform 3D numerical simulations, heuristic modeling and microfluidic experiments to
demonstrate, for the first time, the presence of a bistability scenario for transversal migration …

Pure separation and sorting of microparticles from complex fluids are essential for
biochemical analyses and clinical diagnostics. However, conventional techniques require …

The migration of a sphere in the pressure-driven channel flow of a viscoelastic fluid is
studied numerically. The effects of inertia, elasticity, shear-thinning viscosity, secondary …

The elasto-migration of microparticles across a streamline induced by elasticity and inertia in
microscale pipe flow of viscoelastic fluids was investigated using a holographic technique …

The Oldroyd-B fluid has become the starting point for almost all complex flow calculations
and analysis involving the behavior of dilute polymer solutions. The reasons for this are …