A novel parallel laminar micromixer with a two-dimensional staggered Dean Vortex micromixer is optimized and fabricated in our study. Dean vortices induced by centrifugal forces in curved rectangular channels cause fluids to produce secondary flows....
The field of inertial microfluidics has been significantly advanced in terms of application to fluid manipulation for biological analysis, materials synthesis, and chemical process control. Because of their superior benefits such as high-throughput,...
Due to its high heat transfer property, microchannel heat sink has been widely applied in thermal management, microelectronic cooling and energy conversion. To develop a microchannel heat sink featuring low pressure drop ΔP and a high heat tran...
A new cross-channel split-and-recombine (CC-SAR) micro-mixer was proposed, and its performance was demonstrated numerically. A numerical study was carried out over a wide range of volume flow rates from 3.1 μL/min to 826.8 μL/min. The correspon...
The field of hydrodynamics, specifically microfluidics, is currently undergoing rapid development, with significant progress being made in the creation of new devices and technologies that outperform their macroscopic counterparts. Concurrently, dete...
Inertial microfluidics has become a popular topic in microfluidics research for its good performance in particle manipulation and its advantages of simple structure, high throughput, and freedom from an external field. Compared with traditional micro...
Inertial focusing conditions of fluorescent polystyrene spherical particles are studied at the pointwise level along their pathlines. This is accomplished by an algorithm that calculates a degree of spreading function of the particles’ trajecto...
Blood plasma is the most commonly used biofluid in disease diagnostic and biomedical analysis due to it contains various biomarkers. The majority of the blood plasma separation is still handled with centrifugation, which is off-chip and time-consumin...
A novel passive micromixer based on multiple baffles and a submergence scheme was designed, and its mixing performance was simulated over a wide range of Reynolds numbers ranging from 0.1 to 80. The degree of mixing (DOM) at the outlet and the pressu...
To enhance passive mixing in microchannels, T-shaped double-spiral and serpentine microchannels with identical curvature radii were designed and numerically analyzed across a Reynolds number (Re) range of 1 to 300. The double-spiral microchannel exhi...
Inertial microfluidics enables fluid and particle manipulation for biomedical and clinical applications. Herein, we developed a simple semicircular microchannel with an ultra-low aspect ratio to interrogate the unique formations of the helical vortex...
Extensive research has been conducted on the performance of pump turbines, particularly focused on understanding the generation mechanism of S-shaped characteristics. However, there has been a lack of research on unsteady flow characteristics in hump...
Vortex generators and pin fins are conventionally used to deliver fluid mixing and improved convective heat transfer. The increased pressure loss following a fractional increase in heat transfer, as well as the complex manufacturing design, leave roo...
Hydraulic short-circuit (HSC) has gained widespread attention as a novel approach to enhancing the flexibility of pumped-storage power plants (PSPPs). This paper investigates the flow and structural characteristics of bifurcated pipes in PSPPs, condu...
Results from a series of field experiments, conducted to investigate the influence of infragravity waves (from wave groups), ripple type and location relative to the breaker line on cross-shore suspended sediment flux close to the sea bed in nearshor...
The aim of present study was to develop radiolabeled NPs to overcome the limitations of fluorescence with theranostic potential. Synthesis of PLGA-NPs loaded with technetium-99m was based on a Dean-Vortex-Bifurcation Mixer (DVBM) using an innovative...
Due to the existence of a Dean vortex in a U-tube, the flow and heat transfer process of supercritical methane is complex, and its thermophysical property are greatly influenced by different factors. Based on computational fluid dynamics theory, the...
A passive micromixer combined with two different mixing units was designed by submerging planar structures, and its mixing performance was simulated over a wider range of the Reynolds numbers from 0.1 to 80. The two submerged structures are a Norman...