Description

Fluid flow through small channels has become a popular research topic due to the emergence of biochemical lab-on-the-chip systems and microelectromechanical system fabrication technologies, which began in the late 1980's. There has been significant progress in the development of microfluidics and nanofluidics both at the application as well as at the fundamental and simulation levels in the last few years. This book provides a comprehensive summary of using computational tools to describe fluid flow.

Contents

Basic Concepts and Technologies.

- Governing Equations and Slip Models.

- Shear-Driven Flows.

- Pressure-Driven Flows.

- Thermal Effects in Microscales.

- Prototype Applications of Gas Flows.

- Electrokinetic Flows.

- Surface Tension-Driven Flows.

- Mixers and Chaotic Advection.

- Simple Fluids in Nanochannels.

- Water in Nanochannels.

- Electroosmotic Flow in Nanochannels.

- Functional Fluids and Functionalized Nanotubes.

- Numerical Methods for Continuous Simulation

.- Multiscale Modeling of Gas Flows.

- Multiscale Modeling of Liquid Flows.

- Reduced-Order Modeling.

- Reduced-

Order Simulation.

- Bibliography.