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Fundamentals and applications of inertial microfluidics: a review

University of Wollongong · Griffith University · +2 more institutions

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Abstract

In the last decade, inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention and a wide variety of channel designs that focus, concentrate and separate particles and fluids have been demonstrated. In contrast to conventional microfluidic technologies, where fluid inertia is negligible and flow remains almost within the Stokes flow region with very low Reynolds number (Re ≪ 1), inertial microfluidics works in the intermediate Reynolds number range (~1

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Keywords
  • Microfluidics
  • Inertial frame of reference
  • Inertia
  • Reynolds number
  • Microchannel
  • Nanotechnology
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Computer science
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