Description
Microfluidics is a young and rapidly expanding scientific discipline, which deals with fluids and solutions in miniaturized systems, the so-called lab-on-a-chip systems.
It has applications in chemical engineering, pharmaceutics, biotechnology and medicine.
As the lab-on-a-chip systems grow in complexity, a proper theoretical understanding becomes increasingly important. The basic idea of the book is to provide a self-contained formulation of the theoretical framework of microfluidics, and at the same time give physical motivation and examples from lab-on-a-chip technology.
After three chapters introducing microfluidics, the governing equations for mass, momentum and energy, and some basic flow solutions, the following 14 chapters treat hydraulic resistance/compliance, diffusion/dispersion, time-dependent flow, capillarity, electro- and magneto-hydrodynamics,thermal transport, two-phase flow, complex flow patterns and acousto-fluidics, as well as the new fields of opto- and nano-fluidics.
Throughout the book simple models with analytical solutions are presented to provide the student with a thorough physical understanding of order of magnitudes andvarious selected microfluidic phenomena and devices. The book grew out of a set of well-tested lecture notes.
It is with its many pedagogical exercises designed as a textbook for an advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course.
It is also well suited for self-study.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:27/09/2007
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- ISBN:9780191528583
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:27/09/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780191528583
