Electroosmotically driven capillary transport of typical non-Newtonian biofluids in rectangular microchannels

S Chakraborty - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2007 - Elsevier
In this paper, a detailed theoretical model is developed for studying the capillary filling
dynamics of a non-Newtonian power-law obeying fluid in a microchannel subject to …

Experimental and numerical investigation of capillary flow in SU8 and PDMS microchannels with integrated pillars

AA Saha, SK Mitra, M Tweedie, S Roy… - Microfluidics and …, 2009 - Springer
Microfluidic channels with integrated pillars are fabricated on SU8 and PDMS substrates to
understand the capillary flow. Microscope in conjunction with high-speed camera is used to …

Electrohydrodynamics of a droplet in a highly confined domain: A numerical study

R Saghatchi, A Rahmat, M Yildiz - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, electrohydrodynamics (EHD) deformation of a droplet in a highly confined
domain is studied by using the incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics method …

Electrohydrodynamic interaction between droplet pairs in a confined shear flow

S Santra, D Sen, S Das, S Chakraborty - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study deals with electrohydrodynamic interactions between two deformable droplets in
a confined shear flow. We have investigated the effect of the channel confinement and the …

Numerical investigation of heat transfer enhancement in a microchannel with grooved surfaces

O Abouali, N Baghernezhad - 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents a numerical investigation for two types of grooves (rectangular and arc
shapes) fabricated in the microchannel surfaces, which leads to enhancement in single …

Analysis of capillary filling in nanochannels with electroviscous effects

VN Phan, C Yang, NT Nguyen - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2009 - Springer
Capillary filling is the key phenomenon in planar chromatography techniques such as paper
chromatography and thin layer chromatography. Recent advances in micro …

Mechanical stimulation mediates gene expression in MC3T3 osteoblastic cells differently in 2D and 3D environments

MJ Barron, CJ Tsai, SW Donahue - 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Successful bone tissue engineering requires the understanding of cellular activity in three-
dimensional (3D) architectures and how it compares to two-dimensional (2D) architecture …

Electrical switching of a surfactant coated drop in Poiseuille flow

A Poddar, S Mandal, A Bandopadhyay… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Electrical effects can impart a cross-stream component to drop motion in a pressure-driven
flow, due to either an asymmetric charge distribution or shape deformation. However …

Filling of charged cylindrical capillaries

S Das, S Chanda, JCT Eijkel, NR Tas, S Chakraborty… - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
We provide an analytical model to describe the filling dynamics of horizontal cylindrical
capillaries having charged walls. The presence of surface charge leads to two distinct …

Analysis of augmented droplet transport during electrowetting over triangular coplanar electrode array

M Basu, VP Joshi, S Das, S DasGupta - Journal of Electrostatics, 2021 - Elsevier
The improvements in the dynamic performance of droplet movement over a newly designed
and fabricated triangular coplanar electrode system utilizing the principle of electrowetting …