Passive flow control in microdevices using thermally responsive polymer solutions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Stoeber, Boris ^a   Hu, Che Ming Jack ^b   Liepmann, Dorian ^c   Muller, Susan J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MicroFuidic Systems   (United States)

^c University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; GELS; POLYMERS; PRESSURE DROP; RHEOLOGY;

ACTIVE VALVING; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PASSIVE FLOW CONTROL; THERMALLY RESPONSIVE POLYMER SOLUTIONS;

FLOW CONTROL;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW CONTROL; GELS; POLYMERS; PRESSURE DROP; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 33744823530     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2204077     Document Type: Article

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