Experimental and numerical investigation of capillary flow in SU8 and PDMS microchannels with integrated pillars

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-465

  Saha, Auro Ashish ^a   Mitra, Sushanta K ^b   Tweedie, Mark ^c   Roy, Susanta ^c   McLaughlin, Jim ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary flow; Microchannel; Numerical; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PHENOMENA; DIMENSIONLESS VARIABLES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLUID DISTRIBUTION; FRONT SHAPES; HEIGHT RATIO; ISOPROPYL ALCOHOLS; LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; NONUNIFORM; NONUNIFORMITY; NUMERICAL; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PDMS MICROCHANNELS; PDMS SUBSTRATE; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PILLAR DIAMETERS; PITCH RATIO; PITCH-TO-DIAMETER RATIOS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SURFACE AREA; VISCOUS EFFECT; VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD; VOLUME RATIO;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; ETHANOL; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SILICONES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 70349980162     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0395-0     Document Type: Article

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