A microfluidic pumping mechanism driven by non-equilibrium osmotic effects

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 238, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1168-1179

  Atzberger, Paul J ^a   Isaacson, Samuel ^b   Peskin, Charles S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite volume method; Fluid dynamics; Immersed boundary method; Microfluidics; Osmosis; Reaction diffusion advection system

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; OSMOSIS; PUMPS; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; MICROFLUIDIC PUMPING; MOLECULAR SPECIES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATE; REACTION DIFFUSION; RELATIVE DIFFUSIVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS;

EID: 67349256376     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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