Coupled flow and reaction during natural convection PCR

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-130

  Allen, Joshua W ^a,b   Kenward, Martin ^a   Dorfman, Kevin D ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Modeling; Natural convection; Polymerase chain reaction; Rayleigh Benard cell

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); COSMIC RAYS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DNA; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLUID MECHANICS; GENES; HEAT CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PUMPS;

BENARD CONVECTIONS; COUPLED FLOWS; DEAD ZONES; DNA AMPLIFICATIONS; DNA CONCENTRATIONS; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH RATES; FLOW CELLS; HEAT TRANSPORTS; LOW VELOCITIES; MODELING; PCR REACTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAYLEIGH-BENARD CELL; REACTION MODELS; TEMPERATURE FIELDS;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 58249087758     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0312-6     Document Type: Article

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