Physics and Applications of Microfluidics
A special issue of Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 4406
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research on microfluidics concerns the study of geometrically constrained fluid flows inside domains of micrometric size.
Ever since its introduction, about 40 years ago, the miniaturization of typical fluidic elements, such as channels, reservoirs, or mixing/separation chambers, has attracted significant interest, enabling improvement in the performance of classical devices, such as compact heat exchangers, or the development of innovative concepts, such as the biochip.
However, despite its many technological advantages, the scale reduction in transport phenomena has also introduced new challenges to the physical understanding of the underlying fluid flow mechanisms. Unexpected traits range from the increased prominence of surface-based phenomena, such as capillarity effects in the case of liquids, to the complete breakdown of the classical macroscopic hydrodynamic models in the case of gases. This Special Issue seeks contributions that bring new insight into the physics of microfluidic flows. In this context, theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches are all welcome.
Dr. Goncalo Silva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microfluidics
- multiphase flow
- rarefied flow
- nonequilibrium gas flow
- biochip
- lab-on-a-chip
- microchannels
- computational fluid dynamics
- experimental fluid dynamics
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