Encapsulation of an amine using microfluidics

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A Hard Constraint Algorithm to Model Particle Interactions in DNA-laden Micro Flows

We present a new method for particle interactions in polymer models of DNA. The DNA is represented by a bead-rod polymer model. The main objective in this work is to implement short range forces to properly model polymer-polymer and polymer-surface interactions. We will discuss two methods for these interactions: (1) a new rigid constraint...

Design of micro-fluidic bio-reactors

We address the design of optimal reactors for supporting biological cultures using the method of topology optimization. For some years this method have been used to design various optimal microfluidic devices [1, 2, 3, 4]. We apply this method to distribute optimally biologic cultures within a flow of nutrition. From this optimized distribution...

Computing the near-wall region in gas micro- and nanofluidics: Critical Knudsen layer phenomena

In order to capture critical near-wall phenomena in gas micro- and nanoflows within conventional CFD codes, we present scaled Navier-Stokes-Fourier (NSF) constitutive relations. Our scaling is mathematically equivalent to applying an 'effective' viscosity to the original constitutive relations. An expression for this 'effective' transport...

Droplets in microchannels with Level Set method

The field of microfluidics has dramatically improved over the last decade: it enables the transport of minuscule amounts of fluid (nanolitres) through channels the diameter of a single human hair. This miniaturization is increasingly employed to build a wide range of technological devices for example, genome sequencing or using microdroplets as...