Lateral migration of particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in a microchannel flow

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 683-692

  Lim, Hyunjung ^a   Nam, Jeonghun ^a   Shin, Sehyun ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Microfluidics; Normal stress; Particle separation; Secondary flow

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; MICROFLUIDICS; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; SECONDARY FLOW; SIZE SEPARATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

FIRST NORMAL STRESS DIFFERENCE; LATERAL MIGRATION; MICROCHANNEL FLOW; NORMAL STRESS; NORMAL STRESS DIFFERENCE; PARTICLE FOCUSING; PARTICLE SEPARATION; VIS-COELASTIC FLUIDS;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84920257900     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-014-1353-7     Document Type: Article

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