Microfluidics

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MEMS Biosensor Brings about Disposable DNA DetectorsMicrofluidics:
MEMS Biosensor Brings about Disposable DNA Detectors

Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Wouldn't it be a great service for the diagnosing and treating genetic of diseases if physicians had a disposable instrument for detecting DNA that worked...

Fast Protein Folding: ItMicrofluidics:
Fast Protein Folding: It's a Wrap

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
How relaxed protein strands loop and lace or "fold" controls the form they take and the functions they perform in the human body. If the stretched out chains...

Always Check Your Results!Teaching:
Always Check Your Results!

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Partial differential equations form the theoretical basis for ready-to-use modeling packages in transport phenomena. Understanding the implementation and...

Model Examples

Inkjet Nozzle: Level Set: Inkjet printers are attractive tools for printing text and images because they combine low... Droplet Breakup in a T-junction: Emulsions consist of small liquid droplets immersed in an immiscible liquid and widely...
Rising Bubble : The level set method is well suited for problems with moving boundaries in which the geometry’s... Transport in an Electrokinetic Valve: This model presents an example of pressure driven flow and electrophoresis in a 3D...
Filling of a Capillary Channel: This example studies a narrow vertical cylinder placed on top of a reservoir filled with... Electroosmotic Micromixer: Microlaboratories for biochemical applications often require rapid mixing of different fluid...
Microchannel Cell: This example was originally formulated by Albert Witarsa under Professor Bruce Finlayson’s... Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Heat Exchangers: This model builds and solves a conduction and convection heat transfer...
Electroosmotic Micropump: Micropumps, especially those based on electroosmotic flow (EOF), are essential components in... Hydrocarbon Dehalogenation in a Tortuous Microreactor: Removing halogen groups from hydrocarbons is an important...
Magnetic Drug Targeting: Current research on methods to target chemotherapy drugs in the human body includes the... Electroosmotic Flow in Porous Media: This example treats the modeling of electroosmotic flow in porous media. The system...
3D Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of an Obstacle in a Fluid Channel: In this model, fluid is flowing through a... Jet Instability - Moving Mesh and Level Set Models: The Marangoni effect results in a slip velocity in the tangential...
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