the fluid flow and heat transfer in a three-dimensional microchannel filled with al2o3- water nanofluid is numerically investigated. the hybrid scheme is used to discretize the convection terms and simpler algorithm is adopted to couple the velocity and pressure field in the momentum equations. the temperature fields, variation of horizontal velocity along the centre line of the channel, averag...

In this paper, we report spatial distribution of laminar flow-assisted dendritic amplification (LFDA) product. LFDA is a recently invented signal amplification method dedicated to biomolecular binding events on microchannel walls. Onto the bound biomolecule, a dendritic structure is constructed by supplying two building blocks from laminar streams produced by a Y-shaped microchannel. In view of...

in some multi-attribute decision making (madm) problems, various relationships among the decision attributes should be considered. this paper investigates the prioritization relationship of attributes in madm with trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (trifns). trifns are a special intuitionistic fuzzy set on a real number set and have the better capability to model ill-known quantities. fir...

A fractional trapezoidal rule type difference scheme for fractional order integro-differential equation is considered. The equation is discretized in time by means of a method based on the trapezoidal rule: while the time derivative is approximated by the standard trapezoidal rule, the integral term is discretized by means of a fractional quadrature rule constructed again from the trapezoidal r...

A disposable on-chip whole blood/plasma separator, which is able to separate plasma from whole blood by capillary movement through a bead-packed microchannel, has been designed, fabricated and characterized in this work. Various sized silica beads were packed inside a microchannel using a slurry-bump pattern that prevented the beads from passing through the microchannel. The bead-packed microch...

The model results for the velocity field of the herringbone microchannel (Figure 1) indicate that the velocity of the fluid within the herringbone was significantly lower than the 10 velocity in the base microchannel. The velocity profile in the base microchannel closely resembles the parabolic velocity profile in the straight microchannel. However, unlike the uni-directional parabolic velocity...

In this study, the finite volume method and the SIMPLER algorithm is employed to investigate forced convection and entropy generation of Cu-water nanofluid in a parallel plate microchannel. There are four obstacles through the microchannel, and the slip velocity and temperature jump boundary conditions are considered in the governing equations to increase the accuracy of modeling. The study is ...

Abstract The well-known Karush-Kuhn-Tucker theorem can be used, as in the fuzzy case, to find the trapezoidal approximation of a given intuitionistic fuzzy number. The method is quite technical such that obtaining the trapezoidal approximation of an intuitionistic fuzzy numbers from the trapezoidal approximation of a fuzzy number is proposed in the present paper. Among the advantages of this me...

It is generally agreed that of all quadrature formulae, the trapezoidal rule, while being the simplest, is also the least accurate. There is, however, a rather general class of integrals for which the trapezoidal rule can be shown to be a highly accurate means of obtaining numerical values. Specifically, if the integrand is a periodic, even function with all derivatives continuous, then the int...

In this paper, we prove new distance properties between a fuzzy number and its trapezoidal approximation preserving the expected interval. Then, we find the best Lipschitz constant of the trapezoidal approximation operator preserving the expected interval. Finally, we use this result in finding within a reasonable error the trapezoidal approximation of a fuzzy number preserving the expected int...