Theoretical Microfluidics

ISBN-13: 9780199235094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str.

Opis

Microfluidics is a young and rapidly expanding scientific discipline, which deals with fluids and solutions in miniaturized systems, the so-called lab-on-a-chip systems. It has applications in chemical engineering, pharmaceutics, biotechnology and medicine. As the lab-on-a-chip systems grow in complexity, a proper theoretical understanding becomes increasingly important.
The basic idea of the book is to provide a self-contained formulation of the theoretical framework of microfluidics, and at the same time give physical motivation and example from lab-on-a-chip technology. After three chapters introducing microfluidics, the governing questions for mass, momentum and energy, and some basic flow solutions, the following 14 chapters treat hydraulic resistance/compliance, diffusion/dispersion, time-dependent flow, capillarity, electro-and magneto-hydydrodynamics, thermal transport, two-phase flow, complex flow patterns and acousto-fluidics, as well as the new fields of opto-and nano-fluidics. Throughout the book simple models with analytical solutions are presented to provide the student with a thorough physical understanding of order of magnitudes and various selected micorfluidic phenomena and devices.
The book grew out of a set of well-tested lecture notes. It is with its many pedagogical exercises designed as a textbook for an advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course. IT is also well suited for self-study.

Recenzje

The field is rapidly evolving to the point where it will become valuable, and indeed necessary, to do calculations to design real devices. This book offers a prescription for doing this.

O autorze

Professor Henrik Bruus MIC - Department of Micro and Nanotechnology Technical University of Denmark DTU, Bldg. 345 east DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby Denmark 1990: Lic.scient, (PhD), University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1990-1992: Nordita fellow, Nordita, Copenhagen, Denmark 1992-1994: Postdoc, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA 1994-1996: Marie Curie fellow, CNRS-CRTBT, Grenoble, France. 1996-2001: Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 2001-2004: Associate Professor, MIC - Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark. 2005- present Professor, MIC - Department of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark.