microfluids – TechConnect Briefs

Macromodeling for Microfluidic Channels

Kuo C-W, Chein C-M, Yang Y-J, National Taiwan University, TW

In this paper, we present a methodology of generating microfluidic macromodels (reduced-order models) for 3-D non-linear microchannels. Compared with the full-meshed simulations, the generated macromodels not only provide accuracy results, but also give three-orders-of-magnitude speed-ups. [...]

A Novel Battery Architecture Based on Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Materials

Lifton V.A., Simon S., mPhase Technologies, US

Everyone uses batteries. They come in many sizes, shapes, power densities, and support a wide variety of military, commercial and consumer applications. Therefore, it is surprising how little battery technology has changed since the 1960s [...]

Magnetohydrodynamic Micromixing

Gleeson J.P., West J., University College Cork, IR

Modeling of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) pumping in an annular microchannel is reduced to a two-dimensional Poisson equation for the azimuthal velocity. A method for enhancing the mixing of fluids is proposed, and is proven to yield [...]