2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Microfluidics and Small-Scale Flows II

This session will focus on microhydrodynamic phenomena in the low-Reynolds-number regime. Topics will include studies of flow, particle manipulation, and heat and mass transfer in microfluidic devices.

Chair

Abraham D. Stroock, Cornell University

Co-Chair

Shelley L. Anna, Carnegie Mellon University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(353a) Multiphase Microfluidic Fabrication for Biomedical Diagnostics and Regenerative Medicine

John Oakey, Tor Vestad, Charles Nuttelman

08:45 AM

(353b) Universality in the Size and Spacing of Slugs Generated by Converging Immiscible Flows at Microfluidic Junctions

Shramik Sengupta, Hsueh-Chia Chang

09:00 AM

(353c) Numerical Simulation of Droplet Formation in Flow Focusing Microfluidics Device

Dawei Luo, Haejune Kim, Zhengdong Cheng

09:15 AM

(353d) Effects of Geometry and Fluid Elasticity during Polymeric Droplet Pinch-off in Microfluidic Environments

B. Steinhaus, Amy Shen, Radhakrishna Sureshkumar

09:30 AM

(353e) Dynamics of Drop Formation in Microchannels: Polymeric Fluids, Micellar Solutions, & Tip-Streaming

Paulo E. Arratia

09:45 AM

(353f) Transport and Dispersion in Segmented Gas-Liquid Flow through a Forest of Micropillars

Axel Günther, Michiel Kreutzer, Klavs F. Jensen

10:00 AM

(353g) Multilayer Microfluidic Flows of Suspensions

Mona Utne Larsen, Nina C. Shapley

10:15 AM

(353h) Separation of Suspended Particles by Asymmetric Arrays of Obstacles in Microfluidic Devices

Zhigang Li, German Drazer

10:30 AM

(353j) Retention of Polymer Molecules in a Cavity: a Lattice Boltzmann Study

Hongbo Ma, Juan J. de Pablo, Michael D. Graham