Dean-flow-coupled elasto-inertial three-dimensional particle focusing under viscoelastic flow in a straight channel with asymmetrical expansion-contraction cavity arrays

Biomicrofluidics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Yuan, D ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Yan, S ^a   Pan, C ^a   Alici, G ^a   Nguyen, N T ^b   Li, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; EXPANSION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FOCUSING; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

FOCUSING PERFORMANCE; INERTIAL MICROFLUIDICS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; RECTANGULAR CHANNEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); VISCO-ELASTIC FLUID; VISCOELASTIC FLOWS;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 84938125329     PISSN: 19321058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4927494     Document Type: Article

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