Non-Newtonian Microfluidics

• Other Authors: Mei, Lanju (Editor), Qian, Shizhi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; microfluidics; Janus droplet; OpenFOAM; volume of fluid method; adaptive dynamic mesh refinement; shear-thinning fluid; electroosmosis; elastic instability; non-Newtonian fluid; Oldroyd-B model; electroosmotic flow; micromixing performance; heterogeneous surface potential; wall obstacle; power-law fluid; bvp4c; RK4 technique; brownian motion; porous rotating disk; maxwell nanofluid; thermally radiative fluid; von karman transformation; hybrid nanofluid; entropy generation; induced magnetic field; convective boundary conditions; thermal radiations; stretching disk; viscoelastic material; group similarity analysis; thermal relaxation time; parametric investigation; variable magnetic field; error analysis; viscoelastic fluid; microfluid; direction-dependent; viscous dissipation; chemical reaction; finite element procedure; hybrid nanoparticles; heat and mass transfer rates; joule heating; tri-hybrid nanoparticles; Soret and Dufour effect; boundary layer analysis; finite element scheme; heat generation; constructive and destructive chemical reaction; particle separation; viscoelastic flow; inertial focusing; spiral channel; transient two-layer flow; power-law nanofluid; heat transfer; Laplace transform; nanoparticle volume fraction; effective thermal conductivity; fractal scaling; Monte Carlo; porous media; power-law model; bioheat equation; human body; droplet deformation; viscoelasticity; wettable surface; dielectric field; droplet migration; wettability gradient; n/a
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Microfluidics has seen a remarkable growth over recent decades, with its extensive applications in engineering, medicine, biology, chemistry, etc. Many of these real applications of microfluidics involve the handling of complex fluids, such as whole blood, protein solutions, and polymeric solutions,...