Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics
Transport in Microfluidic Devices

For graduates, undergraduates and a reference for practising researchers, this covers the physics of fluid transport in micro- and nanofabricated systems.

Brian J. Kirby (Author)

9780521119030, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 July 2010

536 pages, 228 b/w illus. 23 tables 360 exercises
25.9 x 18.3 x 3.6 cm, 1.13 kg

This text focuses on the physics of fluid transport in micro- and nanofabricated liquid-phase systems, with consideration of gas bubbles, solid particles, and macromolecules. This text was designed with the goal of bringing together several areas that are often taught separately - namely, fluid mechanics, electrodynamics, and interfacial chemistry and electrochemistry - with a focused goal of preparing the modern microfluidics researcher to analyse and model continuum fluid mechanical systems encountered when working with micro- and nanofabricated devices. This text serves as a useful reference for practising researchers but is designed primarily for classroom instruction. Worked sample problems are included throughout to assist the student, and exercises at the end of each chapter help facilitate class learning.

1. Kinematics, conservation equations, and boundary conditions for incompressible flow
2. Unidirectional flow
3. Hydraulic circuit analysis
4. Passive scalar transport: dispersion, patterning, and mixing
5. Electrostatics and electrodynamics
6. Electroosmosis
7. Potential fluid flow
8. Stikes flow
9. The diffuse structure of the electrical double layer
10. Zeta potential in microchannels
11. Species and charge transport
12. Microchip chemical separations
13. Particle electrophoresis
14. DNA transport and analysis
15. Nanofluidics: fluid and current flow in molecular-scale and thick-double-layer systems
16. AC electrokinetics and the dynamics of diffuse charge
17. Particle and droplet actuation: dielectrophoresis, magnetophoresis, and digital microfluidics
Appendices: A. Units and fundamental constants
B. Properties of electrolyte solutions
C. Coordinate systems and vector calculus
D. Governing equation reference
E. Nondimensionalization and characteristic parameters
F. Multipolar solutions to the Laplace and Stokes equations
G. Complex functions
H. Interaction potentials: atomistic modeling of solvents and solutes.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Technology: general issues [TB], Fluid mechanics [PHDF], Physics [PH], Nonlinear science [PBWR]