Inertial focusing dynamics in spiral microchannels

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Martel, Joseph M ^a,b   Toner, Mehmet ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; FOCUSING; VELOCITY;

CHANNEL LENGTH; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; LOW ASPECT RATIO; PARAMETER SPACES; PARTICLE BEHAVIOR; PARTICLE STREAK; STRAIGHT MICROCHANNELS; VELOCITY RESOLUTION;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84859298239     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3681228     Document Type: Article

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34. See supplemental material at E-PHFLE6-24-011202 for additional plots from the increasing Dean number data set, a plot of the channel length required to achieve focusing as well as graphs from the paper plotted versus the non-dimensional values Reynolds number and Dean number.