Periodic flows in microfluidics

A Mudugamuwa, U Roshan, S Hettiarachchi, H Cha… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics, the science and technology of manipulating fluids in microscale channels,
offers numerous advantages, such as low energy consumption, compact device size …

Soft hydraulics: from Newtonian to complex fluid flows through compliant conduits

IC Christov - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Microfluidic devices manufactured from soft polymeric materials have emerged as a
paradigm for cheap, disposable and easy-to-prototype fluidic platforms for integrating …

Electroosmotic mixing of viscoplastic fluids in a microchannel

SK Mehta, PK Mondal - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Viscoplastic fluids flow through a microfluidic channel having a built-in two-part cylinder
inside, while the upstream and downstream parts of the cylinder bear the surface potential of …

Correction to: Speeding up Markov chains with deterministic jumps

S Chatterjee, P Diaconis - Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2021 - Springer
Correction to: Speeding up Markov chains with deterministic jumps | Probability Theory and
Related Fields Skip to main content Springer Nature Link Account Menu Find a journal Publish …

Streaming-enhanced flow-mediated transport

T Parthasarathy, FK Chan, M Gazzola - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We investigate the ability of an active body (master) to manipulate a passive object (slave)
purely via contactless flow-mediated mechanisms, motivated by potential applications in …

Generation and application of sub-kilohertz oscillatory flows in microchannels

G Vishwanathan, G Juarez - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2020 - Springer
We present an accessible and versatile experimental technique that generates sub-kilohertz
sinusoidal oscillatory flows within microchannels. This method involves the direct interfacing …

Active chaotic mixing in a channel with rotating arc-walls

K El Omari, E Younes, T Burghelea, C Castelain… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
An active inline mixer suitable for flows at low Reynolds number and high Péclet number is
studied. An alternated oscillatory forcing protocol is imposed by three rotating circular arc …

Direct numerical simulation of microbubble streaming in a microfluidic device: The effect of the bubble protrusion depth on the vortex pattern

B Behdani, S Monjezi, J Zhang, C Wang… - Korean Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Microbubble streaming in a microfluidic device has been increasingly studied and used in
recent years, due to its unique flow pattern that can promote mixing, sort particles and trap …

Vibration Induced Flow Facilitating Immunoagglutination for Rapid Detection and Quantification of Nanoparticles

K Kaneko, M Tsugane, T Sato, T Hayakawa… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2025 - Elsevier
The detection of bioactive nanoparticles (NPs) plays an important role in the medical and
diagnostic fields. Conventional techniques for the sensitive detection of target NPs must …

Optimized mixing by cutting-and-shuffling

LD Smith, PB Umbanhowar, JM Ottino… - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2018 - SIAM
Mixing by cutting-and-shuffling can be understood and predicted using dynamical systems
based tools and techniques. In existing studies, mixing is generated by maps that repeat the …