Progress towards the design and numerical analysis of a 3D microchannel biochip separator

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1771-1792

  Xue, Xiangdong ^a   Marson, Silvia ^b   Patel, Mayur K ^a   Bailey, Chris ^a   O'Neill, William ^c   Topham, David ^d   Kay, Robert W ^e   Desmulliez, Marc P Y ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D microfluidic device; Device design; Microchannel device; Modelling and simulation; Plasma blood separation

Indexed keywords

3-D MICROFLUIDIC; CELL-FREE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; CROSS SECTION; DEVICE DESIGN; GEOMETRIC VARIATIONS; INITIAL CONFIGURATION; MICROCHANNEL DEVICE; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; SEPARATION PROCESS; SIDE-CHANNEL; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D);

BLOOD; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; FLUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEPARATORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 80055006007     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1439     Document Type: Article

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