Simulation-based analysis of micro-robots swimming at the center and near the wall of circular mini-channels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 287-298

  Temel, Fatma Zeynep ^a   Yesilyurt, Serhat ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Creeping flows; Hydrodynamic interactions; Micro flows; Motion of objects in channels; Swimming micro robots

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIAGNOSIS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAGNETIC HEADS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL ROBOTICS; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; CREEPING FLOWS; HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; IN-CHANNELS; MICRO-FLOW; SIMULATION-BASED ANALYSIS; SWIMMING MICRO-ORGANISMS;

MICROROBOTS;

EID: 84878595685     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-1047-y     Document Type: Article

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