The electrokinetic flow resistance (electroviscous effect) is predicted for steady state, pressure-driven liquid flow at low Reynolds number in a microfluidic contraction of rectangular cross-section. Calculations of the three dimensional flow are performed in parallel using a finite volume numerical method. The channel walls are assumed to carry a uniform charge density and the liquid is taken...

The electrokinetic flow resistance (electroviscous effect) is predicted for steady state, pressure-driven liquid flow at low Reynolds number in a microfluidic contraction of rectangular cross-section. Calculations of the three dimensional flow are performed in parallel using a finite volume numerical method. The channel walls are assumed to carry a uniform charge density and the liquid is taken...

In an interesting study, Jung et al.1) found an effective reduction of whole blood viscosity in statin naïve acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients with early statin administration. In statin naïve ACS patients they found an apparent decrease in whole blood viscosities at both of the two shear rates. The hypothesis that a lipid-lowering reagent, statin, contributes to blood viscosity decrease i...

The procedure usually employed for specifying a set of hydrocyclones used in Newtonian fluidsolid separation processes can be extended to the case of non-Newtonian fluids. The apparent viscosity, μapp, is the link between the two cases, and can be evaluated from the knowledge of the shear stress function, S, and the characteristic rate of shear, λ*. In order to verify the validity of this, expe...

Electrorheological fluids are smart materials that are concentrated suspensions of polarizable particles in a nonconducting dielectric liquid. In moderately large electric fields the particles form chains along the field lines and these chains then aggregate into the form of columns. These chainlike and columnar structures yield dramatic changes in the rheological properties of the suspensions....

VISCOSITY is one of the fundamental physical properties of blood that has direct influence on its rate of flow. The viscosity varies mainly with the cell-plasma ratio and the plasma protein content and composition. Viscosity of whole blood is dependent on the number of erythrocytes and increases with the hematocrit but at a faster rate. At the same hematocrit, the viscosity is said to be propor...

The solution viscosity near an interface, which affects the solution behavior and the molecular dynamics in the solution, differs from the bulk. This paper measured the effective viscosity of a dilute poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) solution adjacent to a Au electrode using the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) technique. We evidenced that the effect of an adsorbed PEG layer can...

In complex emulsions, viscosity or viscosity-associated sensory attributes such as creaminess are important for quality assessment and product differentiation. Two sets of emulsions with fat or locust bean gum content being varied at seven levels were developed; the two emulsions at each level had similar apparent viscosity. Additionally, sugar concentration was kept constant either with respec...