The recent on-going development of micro technologies allows designing complex microsystems devoted to transport, dosing, mixing, analysis, or even synthesis of fluids. These applications are numerous and concern every industrial field, from biotechnologies to aeronautics. Microfluidics is a young research area relating to microsystems involving internal flows with characteristic dimensions of one micrometer.

The goal of this book is to provide engineers and researchers the tools necessary for modelling, experimenting, and simulating these microflows as a preliminary step for designing...