Authors:Marco Ellero, Xiangyu Hu, Jochen Fröhlich, Nikolaus A
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: iutam, micro, nanofluidics, advances, symposium, september, bookseries, dresden, proceedings, germany
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2009-07-24
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 9048126258
ISBN-13: 9789048126255

Micro and nano-fluidics concerns fluid dynamics occurring in devices or flow configurations with minimum design length measured in micrometers or smaller. The behavior of fluids at these scales is quite different from that at the macroscopic level due to the presence of surface tension effects, wetting phenomena, Brownian diffusion and hydrodynamic interactions with immersed particles and microstructures. These effects cannot be generally represented in a classical homogeneous continuum framework. However, this triggers the development of new tools to investigate and simulate problems at the m