On the forced convective heat transport in a droplet-laden flow in microchannels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 533-542

  Urbant, Polina ^a   Leshansky, Alexander ^a   Halupovich, Yulia ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Continuous flow PCR; Droplet laden flow; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DROPS; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

DROPLET-LADEN FLOW; POISEUILLE FLOW; VOLUME-OF-FLUID METHOD;

FORCED CONVECTION;

EID: 44249086409     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-007-0211-2     Document Type: Article

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