A passive Stokes flow rectifier for Newtonian fluids

Elastomeric microfluidic diode and rectifier work with Newtonian fluids.

We report on two microfluidic elastomeric autoregulatory devices-a diode and a rectifier. They exhibit physically interesting and complex nonlinear behaviors (saturation, bias-dependent resistance, and rectification) with a Newtonian fluid. Due to their autoregulatory properties, they operate without active external control. As a result, they enable increased microfluidic device density and ove...

An Investigation of Stokes’ Second Problem for Non-newtonian Fluids

Stokes flow produced by an oscillatory motion of a wall is analyzed in the presence of a nonNewtonian fluid. A total of eight non-Newtonian models are considered. A mass balance approach is introduced to solve the governing equations. The velocity and temperature profiles for these models are obtained and compared to those of Newtonian fluids. For the power law model, correlations for the veloc...

Time-periodic Electroosmotic Flow of Non-newtonian Fluids in Microchannels

The alternating current electroosmotic flow of a non-Newtonian power-law fluid is studied in a circular microchannel. A numerical method is employed to solve the non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann and the momentum equations. The main parameters which affect the flow field are the flow behavior index, the dimensionless zeta potential and the dimensionless frequency. At very low dimensionless frequenci...

Incompressible laminar flow - newtonian and non-newtonian fluids

The problems of incompressible flows dominate a large part of the fluid mechanics scene. For this reason, they are given special attention in this book and we devote two chapters to this subject. In the present chapter we deal with various steadystate and transient situations in which the flow is forced by appropriate pressure gradients and boundary forces. In the next chapter we shall consider...

Reactive rimming flow of non-Newtonian fluids