Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale

TM Squires, SR Quake - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
Microfabricated integrated circuits revolutionized computation by vastly reducing the space,
labor, and time required for calculations. Microfluidic systems hold similar promise for the …

Multi-particle collision dynamics: A particle-based mesoscale simulation approach to the hydrodynamics of complex fluids

G Gompper, T Ihle, DM Kroll, RG Winkler - Advanced computer simulation …, 2009 - Springer
In this review, we describe and analyze a mesoscale simulation method for fluid flow, which
was introduced by Malevanets and Kapral in 1999, and is now called multi-particle collision …

Lattice Boltzmann simulations of soft matter systems

B Dünweg, AJC Ladd - Advanced computer simulation approaches for soft …, 2009 - Springer
This article concerns numerical simulations of the dynamics of particles immersed in a
continuum solvent. As prototypical systems, we consider colloidal dispersions of spherical …

A coarse grain model for DNA

TA Knotts, N Rathore, DC Schwartz… - The Journal of chemical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past two decades, significant experimental advances have increased our ability to
control and manipulate individual DNA molecules. This capability has permitted …

The dynamics of single-molecule DNA in flow

ESG Shaqfeh - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2005 - Elsevier
Within the last decade, fluorescence microscopy of single molecules of DNA in a plethora of
flow fields has allowed an unprecedented examination of the dynamics of polymers in flow …

Simulation of hydrodynamically interacting particles near a no-slip boundary

JW Swan, JF Brady - Physics of Fluids, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of spherical particles near a single plane wall are computed using an
extension of the Stokesian dynamics method that includes long-range many-body and …

Margination and segregation in confined flows of blood and other multicomponent suspensions

A Kumar, MD Graham - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Blood and many other multicomponent suspensions display a segregation behavior in
which different components of the suspension are differentially distributed in the cross …

Theory of shear-induced migration in dilute polymer solutions near solid boundaries

H Ma, MD Graham - Physics of Fluids, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, a continuum theory is developed for the behavior of flowing dilute polymer
solutions near solid surfaces, using a bead-spring dumbbell model of the dissolved polymer …

A mesoscale model of DNA and its renaturation

EJ Sambriski, DC Schwartz, JJ De Pablo - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
A mesoscale model of DNA is presented (3SPN. 1), extending the scheme previously
developed by our group. Each nucleotide is mapped onto three interaction sites. Solvent is …

Pressure-driven transport of confined DNA polymers in fluidic channels

D Stein, FHJ van der Heyden… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
The pressure-driven transport of individual DNA molecules in 175-nm to 3.8-μm high silica
channels was studied by fluorescence microscopy. Two distinct transport regimes were …