Abstract Transport and mixing of scalar quantities in fluid flows is ubiquitous industry Nature. While the more familiar turbulent promote efficient transport by their inherent spatio-temporal disorder, laminar lack such a natural mechanism far challenging. However, flow essential to many problems, insight into its characteristics great importance. Laminar transport, arguably, best described La...

In a variety of applications, most notably microfluidics design, slip-based boundary conditions have been sought to characterize fluid flow over patterned surfaces. We focus on laminar shear flows over surfaces with periodic height fluctuations and/or fluctuating Navier scalar slip properties. We derive a general formula for the ‘effective slip’, which describes equivalent fluid motion at the m...

Pulsatile non-Newtonian blood flow in an idealized vessel is numerically investigated. The CarreauYasuda model is used to account for the shear-thinning viscosity of blood. For validation purposes, we have used two numerical methods: a mesoscopic lattice-Boltzmann equation and a standard finite element solver. Good agreement for the velocity and the shear stress has been obtained from the two a...

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Endothelial cell alignment along the direction of laminar fluid flow is widely understood to be a defining morphological feature of vascular homeostasis. While the role of associated signaling and structural events have been well studied, associated intercellular stresses under laminar fluid shear have remained ill-defined and the role of these stresses in the alignment process has remained obs...

A mapping approach is proposed for the numerical simulation of distributive mixing in threedimensional laminar flows. The technique is based on a spatially discretized description of the locally averaged concentration of fluid components in the mixture (so called “coarse grain density”) and a distribution matrix that describes the changes in component concentration. It is a generalization of a ...

Channel flow of an incompressible fluid at Reynolds numbers above 2400 possesses a number of different spatially localized solutions that approach laminar flow far upstream and downstream. We use one such relative time-periodic solution, which corresponds to a spatially localized version of a Tollmien-Schlichting wave, to illustrate how the upstream and downstream asymptotics can be computed an...

This review describes microfluidic systems in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) for biological studies. Properties of PDMS that make it a suitable platform for miniaturized biological studies, techniques for fabricating PDMS microstructures, and methods for controlling fluid flow in microchannels are discussed. Biological procedures that have been miniaturized into PDMS-based microdevices include i...

Incompressible two dimensional lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is adopted to simulate flow inside a pipe commonly called Poiseuille flow. Instead of D2Q9 lattice Boltzmann model, we used an incompressible two-dimensional model, D2Q9i to simulate the flow conditions. At the inlet, velocity boundary condition, while at outlet, pressure boundary condition and at the surfaces, no slip boundary condi...