[HTML][HTML] Turbulent drag reduction by polymer additives: Fundamentals and recent advances

L Xi - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A small amount of polymer additives can cause substantial reduction in the energy
dissipation and friction loss of turbulent flow. The problem of polymer-induced drag …

[PDF][PDF] Transport of complex and active fluids in porous media

M Kumar, JS Guasto, AM Ardekani - Journal of Rheology, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Complex and active fluids find broad applications in flows through porous materials.
Nontrivial rheology can couple to porous microstructure leading to surprising flow patterns …

Review of mechanical degradation and de-aggregation of drag reducing polymers in turbulent flows

EJ Soares - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
The efficiency of drag reduction (DR) is known to be impaired by mechanical scission of
molecules, which is a great obstacle to the practical use of flexible polymeric drag reducers …

Asymmetric flows of complex fluids past confined cylinders: A comprehensive numerical study with experimental validation

S Varchanis, CC Hopkins, AQ Shen, J Tsamopoulos… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Three non-Newtonian constitutive models are employed to investigate how fluid rheological
properties influence the development of laterally asymmetric flows past confined cylinders …

Intracellular Nanomaterial Delivery via Spiral Hydroporation

GY Kang, DW Carlson, TH Kang, S Lee, SJ Haward… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In recent nanobiotechnology developments, a wide variety of functional nanomaterials and
engineered biomolecules have been created, and these have numerous applications in cell …

High‐Yield Bioproduction of Extracellular Vesicles from Stem Cell Spheroids via Millifluidic Vortex Transport

E Thouvenot, L Charnay, N Burshtein… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as novel therapeutics, particularly in cancer and
degenerative diseases. Nevertheless, from both market and clinical viewpoints, high‐yield …

Spectral universality of elastoinertial turbulence

S Yamani, B Keshavarz, Y Raj, TA Zaki, GH McKinley… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Dissolving small amounts of polymer into a Newtonian fluid can dramatically change the
dynamics of transitional and turbulent flows. We investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of …

[HTML][HTML] 3D-printed glass microfluidics for fluid dynamics and rheology

N Burshtein, ST Chan, K Toda-Peters, AQ Shen… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microfluidics provides a versatile platform for handling small volumes of fluids at small length
scales. From a fluid dynamics perspective, microfluidics gives access to a regime of very …

Tristability in viscoelastic flow past side-by-side microcylinders

CC Hopkins, SJ Haward, AQ Shen - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Viscoelastic flows through microscale porous arrays exhibit complex path selection and
switching phenomena. However, understanding this process is limited by a lack of studies …

Secondary flows of viscoelastic fluids in serpentine microchannels

L Ducloué, L Casanellas, SJ Haward, RJ Poole… - Microfluidics and …, 2019 - Springer
Secondary flows are ubiquitous in channel flows, where small velocity components
perpendicular to the main velocity appear due to the complexity of the channel geometry …