We have developed an in-plane bi-polymer check-valve for controlling microfluidic flow and preventing contamination between solutions by tilizing the elastic force of a swollen hydrogel. The valve was created using microfluidic tectonics, a fabrication procedure that allows construction f microscale components and autonomous systems using liquid-phase photopolymerization and in situ fabrication...

We study the flow of an incompressible viscous fluid through a long tube with compliant walls. The flow is governed by a given time dependent pressure head difference. The Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible viscous fluid are used to model the flow, and the Navier equations for a curved, linearly elastic membrane to model the wall. Employing the asymptotic techniques typically used in...

We study the flow of an incompressible viscous Newtonian fluid through a tube with compliant walls. The tube is assumed to be straight, long, with circular cross–sections of variable radius. Elastic properties of the tube wall are described by the linear membrane shell equations. The flow is driven by the pulsatile inlet and outlet dynamic pressure data. Applying asymptotic techniques we derive...

For the treatment of vascular disease, the major cause of death in Western society, there is an urgent need for tissue-engineered, biocompatible, small calibre artery substitutes that restore biological function. Vascular tissue engineering of such grafts involves the development of compliant synthetic or biomaterial scaffolds that incorporate vascular cells and extracellular matrix. Elastic fi...

We introduce and study numerically a scalable parallel finite element solver for the simulation of blood flow in compliant arteries. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are used to model the fluid and coupled to an incompressible linear elastic model for the blood vessel walls. Our method features an unstructured dynamic mesh capable of modeling complicated geometries, an arbitrary Lagra...

Main theme of present investigation is to model and analyze the peristaltic activity of Carraeu-Yasuda nanofluid saturating porous space in a curved channel. Unlike the traditional approach, the porous medium effects are characterized by employing modified Darcy's law for Carreau-Yasuda fluid. To our knowledge this is first attempt in this direction for Carreau-Yasuda fluid. Heat and mass trans...

With ever increasing complexity, process compliance requirements, safety norms, international regulations and standards compliance requirements, it has become more and more complicated to estimate, monitor, control and manage globally distributed projects. A project lead or a project manager, managing a globally distributed project, needs to refer to a number of artifacts at a time and at the s...

Rate control algorithms for commercial 802.11 devices strongly rely on packet losses for their adaptation. As a result, they give poor performance in dense networks because they are not able to distinguish packet losses related to channel error from packet losses due to collision. In this paper, we evaluate automatic rate adaptation algorithms in IEEE 802.11 dense networks. A certain number of ...