Using Murray's law to design artificial vascular microfluidic networks

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 87, Issue , 2006, Pages 245-254

  Barber, R W ^a   Cieslicki K ^b   Emerson, D R ^b  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomimetic; Lab on a chip; Manifold; Microfluidic; Vascular

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MAMMAL; NETWORK DESIGN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 36148989570     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/DN060241     Document Type: Article

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