8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels


Biomedical

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30168

Nanoparticle-Coated Microtubes for the Manipulation of Cancer Cells

Michael R. King, Robin Zhou, Andrew Hughes, and Jane L. Liesveld

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30177

Neutrophil Motion, Adhesion and Activation in an In Vitro Micropipette Model of a Lung Capillary

David F. J. Tees, Prithu Sundd, Young Eun Choi, Douglas J. Goetz, Anand Pai, and Steven Rogers

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30559

Pressure Drop in Microchannels Filled With Porous Media

A. Tamayol, M. Bahrami, B. Gray, and A. Khosla

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30605

Micro-PIV and CFD Studies Show Non-Uniform Wall Shear Stress Distributions Over Endothelial Cells

Sharul S. Dol, M. Mehdi Salek, Kayla D. Viegas, Kristina D. Rinker, and Robert J. Martinuzzi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30661

A Numerical Investigation for Nano-Particles Deposition in Realistic Geometry of Deviant Human Nasal Airways

Hajar Moghadas, Omid Abouali, Abolhasan Faramarzi, Behtash Tavakoli, and Goodarz Ahmadi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30717

Microfluidic Formation of Hydrogel Microparticles for Drug Delivery

Amy Betz, Hanwei Zhang, Weiliam Chen, and Daniel Attinger

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30857

Validated Reduced Order Models for Simulating Trajectories of Bio-Inspired Artificial Micro-Swimmers

Ahmet Fatih Tabak and Serhat Yesilyurt

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31080

Multi-Scale Particle Simulation of Red Blood Cell in Microcirculation

Anurag Kumar, Toru Yamada, and Mohammed Faghri

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31090

Effect of Shear Rate on Thrombus Growth

Elham Tolouei, Andreas Fouras, and Josie Carberry

Boiling and Condensation

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30139

Statistical Modelling of Bubble Nucleation and Heat Transfer Using Interface Tracking in TransAT CMFD Code

Chidambaram Narayanan, Siju Thomas, and Djamel Lakehal

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30218

A Visualization Study During Flow Boiling of R134a in a Horizontal Microchannel

Rashid Ali, Björn Palm, and Mohammad H. Maqbool

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30230

Pressure Drop During Condensation in Microchannels

Tian Yi Song, Guang Xu Yu, Xue Hu Ma, John W. Rose, and Hua-Sheng Wang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30273

High Resolution Measurement of Wall Temperature Distribution During Forced Convective Boiling in a Single Minichannel

Nils Schweizer, Martin Freystein, and Peter Stephan

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30281

Formation Mechanisms and Characteristics of Liquid Microlayer in Mini-Gap Boiling System

Yaohua Zhang and Utaka Yoshio

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30428

Experimental Study of Nucleate Boiling Performance on Several Types of the Mixed-Wettability Pattern Surface by Micro/Milli-Sized Hydrophobic Patterns

HangJin Jo, Soon Ho Kang, Ho Seon Ahn, and Moo Hwan Kim

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30478

Flow Boiling of Water on Nanocoated Surfaces in a Microchannel

Hai Trieu Phan, Nadia Caney, Philippe Marty, Stéphane Colasson, and Jérôme Gavillet

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30524

Network Analysis of Non-Uniformly Heated Evaporative Micro-Channel Systems

Hee Joon Lee and Shi-chune Yao

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30603

An Analysis of Saturated Critical Heat Flux in Micro/Mini-Channels

Zan Wu, Wei Li, and Zhike Wang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30700

Microstructure Devices for Water Evaporation

Juergen J. Brandner, Eugen Anurjew, Edgar Hansjosten, Stefan Maikowske, Ulrich Schygulla, and Alice Vittoriosi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30878

Reduced-Order Fluidic Model for Flow Instabilities in Two-Phase Microfluidic Heat Exchangers

Josef L. Miler, Gamal Refai-Ahmed, Maxat N. Touzelbaev, Milnes P. David, Julie E. Steinbrenner, and Kenneth E. Goodson

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31147

Pool Boiling Heat Transfer and Bubble Dynamics Over Plain and Enhanced Microchannels

Dwight Cooke and Satish G. Kandlikar

Chemical Reactions

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30010

Parametric Study of an Autothermal Micro Surface Reactor for Hydrogen Production

M. H. Akbari, A. H. Sharafian Ardakani, and M. Andisheh Tadbir

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30239

Numerical Simulation of a Mini-Channel Three-Way Catalytic Converter

M. H. Akbari, R. Roohi, and S. A. Asaee

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30389

Heat Transfer Limitations of Gas-Liquid Exothermic Reactions in Microchannels

Norbert Kockmann and Michael Gottsponer

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30532

Prediction of Chemical Reaction Yield in a Microreactor and Development of a Pilot Plant Using the Numbering-Up of Microreactors

Shigenori Togashi, Yukako Asano, and Yoshishige Endo

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31192

Numerical Modeling of a Mini/Microchannel Reactor for Methane-Steam Reforming

Daniel Peterson, Sourabh V. Apte, Vinod Narayanan, and John Schmitt

Digital Microfluidics

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30070

A Finite Element Model for Predicting the Collapse of Two-Line and L-Shaped Patterns During Drying Process in Photolithography

Alidad Amirfazli and Seyed Farshid Chini

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30171

Prediction and Measurement of Thermal Transport Across Interfaces Between Isotropic Solids and Graphitic Materials

Pamela M. Norris, Justin L. Smoyer, John C. Duda, and Patrick E. Hopkins

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30222

Nonlinear Localization for Electrowetting-Based Digital Microfluidic Actuation

Milad Abolhasani, Kurt D. Devlin, Homayoun Najjaran, Mina Hoorfar, and Jonathan F. Holzman

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30710

EWOD in Coplanar Electrode Configurations

Rachid Malk, Arnaud Rival, Yves Fouillet, and Laurent Davoust

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30754

Numerical Multiphysics Modeling of Microdroplet Motion Dynamics in Digital Microfluidic Systems

Ali Ahmadi, Jonathan F. Holzman, Homayoun Najjaran, and Mina Hoorfar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31212

Effects of Electrode Switching Sequence on EWOD Droplet Manipulation: A Simulation Study

Hamid SadAbadi, Muthukumaran Packirisamy, A. Dolatabadi, and Rolf Wuthrich

Electrokinetic Flows

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30258

Generation of Electrokinetic Flow in a Doped Non-Polar Liquid

Dominik P. J. Barz, Michael J. Vogel, and Paul H. Steen

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30465

Optically Induced Electrokinetic Trapping and Sorting of Colloids

Stuart J. Williams, Aloke Kumar, and Steven T. Wereley

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30499

Characterization of Injected Sample Plugs in Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis

Zhanjie Shao, Gerry Schneider, and Carolyn Ren

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30533

Justification of Non-Dimensional Schemes and Identification of Parameters on Modelling Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena in Microchannels

Zhanjie Shao, Gerry Schneider, and Carolyn Ren

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30696

Carbon-Based Electric Double Layer Capacitors for Water Desalination

Batya A. Fellman, Evelyn N. Wang, and Muataz Atieh

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30734

Numerical Simulation of Electrostatic Atomization in Spindle Mode

Mohammad Passandideh Fard, Mortaza Rahimzadeh, Sajad Pooyan, and Mohammad Reza Mahpeykar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30750

A Hybrid Model for the Simulation of Electroosmotic Flows in Microchannels, Induced by Internal Electrodes

Peter Ehrhard and Ina Stieglitz

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30778

Analytical Treatment of Heat Transfer in Electrokinetic Flows

Jafar Jamaati, Hamid Niazmand, and Metin Renksizbulut

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31153

Diffusion Analysis of Chloride in Concrete Following Electrokinetic Nanoparticle Treatment

K. Kupwade-Patil, T. J. John, B. Mathew, H. Cardenas, and H. Hegab

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31165

Parametric Study of a Transient Liquid Flow in a Microchannel of Square Cross-Section

Guyh Dituba Ngoma and Amsini Sadiki

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31213

Modeling and Analysis of Low Voltage Electro-Osmotic Micropump

Jayan Ozhikandathil, Muthukumaran Packirisamy, and Ion Stiharu

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31241

Improving the Electrokinetic Properties of PDMS With Surface Treatments

Zeyad Almutairi, Carolyn Ren, and Leonardo Simon

Electronics Cooling

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30179

On the Heat Transfer Characteristics of Highly Compact Heat Sinks

Chi-Chuan Wang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30749

Submerged Jet Impingement Boiling of Saturated Water Under Sub-Atmospheric Conditions

Ruander Cardenas, Preeti Mani, and Vinod Narayanan

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30921

Heat Transfer Enhancement in Microchannel Flow: Presence of Microparticles in a Fluid

Awad B. S. Alquaity, Salem A. Al-Dini, Evelyn N. Wang, Shahzada Z. Shuja, Bekir S. Yilbas, and Karl J. Suabedissen

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31098

Numerical Simulation of Confined Nano-Impinging Jet in Microscale Cooling Application Using DSMC Method

M. Darbandi, H. Akhlaghi, A. Karchani, and G. E. Schneider

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31167

Multi Layer Micro Pin-Fins Heat Sinks for Better Performance

T. J. John, B. Mathew, and H. Hegab

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31209

Flow Patterns and CHF in a Locally Heated Liquid Film Shear-Driven in a Minichannel

D. V. Zaitsev and O. A. Kabov

Gas Flow

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30167

Gas Microflows in the Slip Flow Regime: A Review on Heat Transfer

Stéphane Colin

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30178

Simulation of Gaseous Microscale Transport Phenomena via Kinetic Theory

Dimitris Valougeorgis and Sarantis Pantazis

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30212

On Eulerian Modeling of Microchannel Gas Flows Closing Higher Statistical Moments of Molecule Velocity

Rodion Groll and Hans J. Rath

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30316

Simulation of Long Microchannel Flow in Transitional Regime Using Lattice Boltzmann Method

Mohammad Nourmohammadzadeh, Mohammad Rahnama, Saeed Jafari, and Alireza Akhgar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30320

Models for Gaseous Slip Flow in Circular and Noncircular Microchannels

Zhipeng Duan and M. M. Yovanovich

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30399

Compressible Microchannel Flow

Gholamreza Mirshekari and Martin Brouillette

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30488

Gas-Wall Interactions of Rarefied Gases in MEMS: A New Experimental Device With Integrated Sensors

Alice Vittoriosi, Juergen J. Brandner, and Roland Dittmeyer

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30489

Numerical Analysis of Rarefaction and Compressibility Effects in Bent Microchannels

G. Croce and O. Rovenskaya

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30587

Variable Property Effects in Simultaneously Developing Gaseous Slip-Flow in Rectangular Microchannels With Prescribed Wall Heat Flux

Azad Qazi Zade, Metin Renksizbulut, and Jacob Friedman

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30622

Flow Structure of Supersonic Jet From a Straight Micro-Tube

Chungpyo Hong, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Yutaka Asako, and Koichi Suzuki

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30652

Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Gaseous Flow in Microchannel With Rectangular Grooves

Zahra Hashemi, Omid Abouali, and Reza Kamali

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30743

The Importance of Mean Free Path in Determining Gas Micro Flow Behaviour

Nishanth Dongari, Yonghao Zhang, and Jason M. Reese

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30968

Transient Simulations of 3-D Supersonic Micronozzle Flow

W. L. Louisos and Darren L. Hitt

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31069

Second Law Analysis for Extended Graetz Problem Including Viscous Dissipation in Microtubes

Arman Sadeghi, Mostafa Baghani, and Mohammad Hassan Saidi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31070

Entropy Generation in Thermally Developing Laminar Forced Convection Through a Slit Microchannel

Arman Sadeghi, Mostafa Baghani, and Mohammad Hassan Saidi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31232

Experimental Study on Measurement of Tangential Momentum Accommodation Coefficient in Microtube

Hiroki Yamaguchi, Tsuneo Hanawa, Oto Yamamoto, Yu Matsuda, Yasuhiro Egami, and Tomohide Niimi

Heat Pipes

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30473

Parameter Optimization of a Micro Heat Sink With Circular Pin-Fins

Mustafa Koz and Ali Kosar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30513

An Efficient Finite Element Procedure for the Analysis of Cross-Flow Micro Heat Exchangers

C. Nonino, S. Savino, and S. Del Giudice

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30711

Flow and Heat Transfer of Micro-Tube Bank

Yasuo Koizumi, Atsushi Katsuta, and Hiroyasu Ohtake

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30797

The Effect of Chaotic Mixing on Heat Transfer in Continuous Thermal Processes at Low Peclet Numbers

M. F. M. Speetjens

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30990

An Experimental Study on Convective Boiling Heat Transfer in Micro Heat Exchangers

Chien-Yuh Yang and Wei-Chi Liu

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31268

A Parametric Investigation of Operating Limits in Heat Pipes Using Novel Metal Foams as Wicks

Mahmood R. S. Shirazy and Luc G. Fréchette

Heat Transfer

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30114

Natural Convection With Porous Medium in a Narrow Horizontal Cylindrical Annulus With Constant Heat Generation

Kamyar Mansour

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30127

Theoretical Study of a Flexible Wiretype Joule Thomson Micro-Refrigerator for Use in Cryosurgery

Adhika Widyaparaga, Masashi Kuwamoto, Naoya Sakoda, Masamichi Kohno, and Yasuyuki Takata

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30176

Nanofluidics Meets Plasmonics: Flow-Through Surface-Based Sensing

C. Escobedo, A. G. Brolo, R. Gordon, and D. Sinton

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30181

Fast Inertial Microfluidic Actuation and Manipulation Using Surface Acoustic Waves

Leslie Y. Yeo and James R. Friend

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30349

The Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer of Flow in Zigzag Micro-Channel With Micro-Orifice

Chengyun Wu, Hongbo Xu, and Changqing Tian

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30364

Study the Heat Transfer Process From Electron-Phonon Nonequilibrium in Thin Gold Film to Glass Substrate Through Transient Thermoreflectance Measurements

Weigang Ma, Haidong Wang, Xing Zhang, and Wei Wang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30402

Preparation of Stable Silicon Oil Based Nanofluid Containing Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube by Using Hexamethyldisiloxane as Dispersant

Lifei Chen, Huaqing Xie, Yang Li, and Wei Yu

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30412

Optothermal Control of Local Fluid Temperature in Microfluidics

M. Akbari, D. Sinton, and M. Bahrami

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30423

Numerical Investigation of Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer in Micro-Cylinder-Groups

Ning Guan, Zhigang Liu, Masahiro Takei, and Chengwu Zhang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30526

Characterization of Capillary Flow Within a Homogenously Dispersed Array of Vertical Micropillars

Conan Zhang and Carlos H. Hidrovo

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30530

Analytical Velocity and Temperature Distributions for Flow in Microchannels of Various Cross-Sections

S. Shahsavari, M. Bahrami, and E. Kjeang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30550

Effect of Nanoparticles on the Spreading of Bubble Triple Line on Top of a Stainless Steel Substrate Nozzle

Saeid Vafaei and Dongsheng Wen

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30567

Effect of Non Uniform Out-of-Plane Illumination and Shear Rate on the Accuracy of nPIV Velocity Measurements

Rana G. Khader and Reza Sadr

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30649

The Visualization Study of Contact Line Characteristics in Triangle Wetting Region of Rectangle Microgroove

Tao Wang, Xuegong Hu, Chaohong Guo, and Dawei Tang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30651

Analysis of Axial Meniscus Jump-Like Transition in Rectangular Microgrooves

Chaohong Guo, Xuegong Hu, Tao Wang, and Dawei Tang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30688

Higher Order Slip and Thermal Creep Effects in Micro Channel Natural Convection

Hamid Niazmand and Behnam Rahimi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30761

Heat Transfer and Evaporation of Falling Liquid Films on Surfaces With Advanced Three-Dimensional Periodic Structures: Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Karsten Löffler, Hongyi Yu, Steffen Hardt, Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman, and Peter Stephan

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30770

Cooling in Constant Wall Temperature Microchannels With Thermal Creep Effects

Ali Amiri-Jaghargh, Hamid Niazmand, and Metin Renksizbulut

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30796

Sources of Experimental Errors in Specific Absorption Rate Measurement of Magnetic Nanoparticles

Shujuan Huang, Amit Gupta, and Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30799

Flow and Heat Transfer of Nanofluids With Temperature Dependent Properties

Ehsan Ebrahimnia Bajestan, Hamid Niazmand, and Metin Renksizbulut

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31101

Numerical Analysis of the Conjugated Heat Transfer Problem for Mixed Electro-Osmotic and Pressure-Driven Flows of Phan-Thien Tanner Fluids in Microchannels

Juan P. Escandón, Oscar E. Bautista, and Federico Méndez

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31160

Thermohydraulic Characteristics of Fluid Flow in a Zig-Zag Square Microchannel

B. Mathew, T. J. John, and H. Hegab

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31243

Effects of Hydrophobic Recovery of Plasma Treated PDMS Microchannels on Surface Tension Driven Flow

Zeyad Almutairi, Carolyn Ren, and David Johnson

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31264

Role of Thermocapillary Convection in Rupture of a Falling Liquid Film Heated From Below

Elizaveta Gatapova, Dmitry Zaitsev, and Oleg Kabov

Interfacial Phenomena at Micro and Nanoscale Forum (Includes Thin Films, Liquid-Solid, Liquid-Vapor and Solid-Solid Interfaces)

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30165

Microfluidically Reconfigurable Photonics and Matter

David Erickson

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30172

Photothermal Energy Conversion in Liquid Nanoparticle Suspensions

P. E. Phelan, R. Taylor, R. Adrian, R. S. Prasher, and T. Otanicar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30180

Dependence of the Contact Angle on the Absorption at the Solid-Liquid Interface

C. A. Ward

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30801

Liquid Deposition at Micro and Nanoscale

Artur Lutfurakhmanov, Robert Sailer, Gregory Loken, Ananiy Kohut, Yechun Wang, Andriy Voronov, Douglas L. Schulz, and Iskander S. Akhatov

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30824

Embedded Refractive Index Sensing in Microchannels Using Multiplexed Silicon-on-Insulator Microring Resonators

Michael Grad, Daniel Attinger, and Chee Wei Wong

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30851

Solid/Water Interface of Functionalized Silica Surfaces Studied by Dynamic Force Measurements

Yan Wu, M. Basar Karacor, Shaurya Prakash, and Mark A. Shannon

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30911

Implications of Contact Line Dynamics on Taylor Bubble Flow Morphology

Alexandru Herescu and Jeffrey S. Allen

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31168

IR Thermography and High Speed Imaging of Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Heated by Monochromatic Irradiation

Abhishek Saha, Erick Tijerino, Ranganathan Kumar, and Saptarshi Basu

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31172

Acoustically Levitated Nanofluid Droplet Vaporization

Erick Tijerino, Abhishek Saha, Ranganathan Kumar, and Saptarshi Basu

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31256

Lumped Parameter Modeling for Microfluidic Networks for Realizing Reconfigurable Nano-Optics Architectures

Seok-Won Kang, Hector J. De Los Santos, and Debjyoti Banerjee

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31312

Heat Conduction Across Nanoscale Interfaces and Nanomaterials for Thermal Management and Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc

Keynote Papers

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31330

Observing Human Blood Cells in Flow Through Microchannels

Harry L. Goldsmith

Lab-on-Chip

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30020

MEMS-Based Microfluidic Devices

Z. Gao, K. Ng, E. Furlani, J. Chwalek, and G. Hawkins

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30174

Entering a New Era of Diagnosis

Marion Ritzi-Lehnert

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30269

Microfluidic Magnetic Multi-Cell Sorting

Scott S. H. Tsai and Howard A. Stone

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30451

Microfluidics Concentration of Sample Solutes Using Joule Heating Effects Under Combined AC and DC Electric Field

Zhengwei Ge and Chun Yang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30580

Liquid Squeeze Film Damping in Microsystems Applications

Shujuan Huang, Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc, and John Tichy

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30588

Experimental Studies of Nozzle/Diffuser Micropumps Using Enhancement Structure

Kai-Shing Yang, Tzu-Feng Chao, Ing Youn Chen, and Chi-Chuan Wang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30722

Production of Fluoropolymer Microchips for Droplet Microfluidics and DNA Amplification

Stefano Begolo, Guillaume Colas, Laurent Malaquin, and Jean-Louis Viovy

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30783

Platinum Supported Mesoporous Silica Spheres by Optimized Microfluidiic Sol-Gel Synthesis Scheme

Venkatachalam Chokkalingam, Boris Weidenhof, Wilhelm F. Maier, Stephan Herminghaus, and Ralf Seemann

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30805

Integration of a PDMS/SU-8/Quartz Microfluidic Chip With a Novel Macroporous Poly Dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Membrane for Isoelectric Focusing of Proteins Using Whole-Channel Imaging Detection

Seyed Mostafa Shameli, Caglar Elbuken, Carolyn L. Ren, and Janusz Pawliszyn

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30977

Characterization of Switching Time and Cell Stress in a Gravity-Driven Microfluidic Cell Sorter Based on Hydrodynamic Switching

Michael Grad, Lubomir Smilenov, David Brenner, and Daniel Attinger

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31048

New Lab-on-a-Chip System for Infectious Disease Analysis

Marion Ritzi-Lehnert, Hans Attig, Jan Claussen, Rainer Dahlke, Gerd Grosshauer, Ralf Himmelreich, Markus Jerziorski, Thomas Rothmann, Eva Schaeffer, Andy Wende, Ole Wiborg, Isabell Wick, and Klaus S. Drese

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31060

A Numerical Model on Secondary Flow and Mixing in Rotating Microfluidics

Wallace Woon-Fong Leung and Yong Ren

Mass Transfer

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30088

Theoretical Study: Flow Control Mono and Bi-Stable Fluidic Device for Micro-Injection System

Khelfaoui Rachid, Dennai Brahim, B. Benyoucef, Slimani A. Kader, and Abdenbi Asma

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30155

Diffusional Mass Transfer at the Surface of Small Gas Bubbles

Franz Peters and Jan-Peter Jeskulke

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30506

Consequences of the Confinement on the Mass or Heat Transfer on a Spherical Particle in Non-Newtonian Fluids

Antoine Despeyroux, Abdelhak Ambari, Abderrahim Ben Richou, and Stéphane Champmartin

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30794

Experimental Characterization of Aerosol Flow Through a Micro-Capillary

Zakaria Mahmud, Justin M. Hoey, Artur Lutfurakhmanov, Jason Daugs, Orven F. Swenson, Douglas L. Schulz, and Iskander S. Akhatov

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31112

An Experimental Study of a Synthetic Jet in Cross Flow in a Microchannel

Alexander Sinclair, Victoria Timchenko, Gary Rosengarten, and John Reizes

MD and Numerical Simulation of Microscale and Nanoscale Phenomena

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30017

Numerical Analysis of CH4 and Air Combustion Inside a Small Tube With a Temperature Gradient

Liang Feng, Zhongliang Liu, and Yanxia Li

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30202

The Study on Flow Patterns of Condensation of Superheated Vapor in Nanochannels

Zhang Hualing and Liu Chao

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30360

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Liquid Flow in and Around Carbon Nanotubes

William D. Nicholls, Matthew K. Borg, and Jason M. Reese

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30445

Effects of Real Surface Roughness on Fluid Flow in Nanochannels

Reza Kamali and Ali Kharazmi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30447

A Continuum: Molecular Dynamics Hybrid Method for Micro- and Nano-Fluid Flow

Reza Kamali and Ali Kharazmi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30579

A Molecular Dynamics Study on the Absorption of Ions Into Carbon Nanotubes

James J. Cannon, Dai Tang, and Daejoong Kim

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30581

Numerical Calculation of Triangle Circulation Drip Irrigation Emitters

Junhong Li and Xinkun Wang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30628

Heat Conduction Rectification in Nanostructure With Step Change in Cross-Section

Xingang Liang and Yue Bao

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30871

Prediction of the Stress-Strain Response of the Ultrafine-Grained Nickel Using Multi-Scale Analysis

Mihaela Banu, Mitica Afteni, Alexandru Epureanu, and Valentin Tabacaru

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31022

Gas Properties Effects in Microchannel Studies Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo

Masoud Darbandi, Abolfazl Karchani, Hassan Akhlaghi, and Gerry Schneider

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31066

A Molecular Dynamics Study of Fluids Through Slit-Like Nanochannels Using Two Different Driving Systems

Masoud Darbandi, Rasool Khaledi-Alidusti, Moslem Sabouri, and Hossein Reza Abbasi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31087

Simulation of Polymer Chain Through DPD Solvent Particles in Nanoscale Flows

Ramin Zakeri, Masoud Darbandi, and Gerry E. Schneider

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31089

Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulation of Nano Taylor Cone

Meysam Joulaian, Sorush Khajepor, Ahmadreza Pishevar, and Yaser Afshar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31173

Numerical Study of Solutal and Thermal Instabilities in Mini-Channels for Membrane-Less Applications

C. S. Iorio, C. Perfetti, Q. Galand, and S. Van Vaerenbergh

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31277

Model Development for Fluid Structure Interaction in the Slip Regime

Jennifer van Rij, Todd Harman, and Tim Ameel

Micro-Flows In Fuel Cells

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30111

The Optimization of Parallel Channel Patterns Design on Micro Methanol Steam Reformer

Jiin-Yun Jang, Yu-Xian Huang, and Chin-Hsiang Chang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30152

Thermodynamic Analysis of Temperature and Pressure on Carbon Deposition for Methane Reforming at Low Temperature in Micro-Combustor

Jing-yu Ran and Liu-jie Zhao

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30241

Modeling of a Micro-Channel Water-Gas Shift Reactor

M. H. Akbari, S. A. Asaee, and R. Roohi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30305

Design of an Experimental Setup to Study Mass Transport in Micro-Nano Capillaries and Porous Media

Lalit M. Pant, Marc Secanell, and Sushanta K. Mitra

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30341

3-D Numerical Simulation of Gas-Liquid Flow in a Minichannel With a Non-Uniform GDL Surface

Yulong Ding, Xiatao T. Bi, and David P. Wilkinson

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30594

Numerical Investigation of Fluid Flow Inside the Porous Medium of GDL

Mehdi Shahraeeni and Mina Hoorfar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30772

Numerical Analysis of the Effect of Different Channel Geometries and Electrode Materials on the Performance of Microfluidic Fuel Cells

Ali Ebrahimi Khabbazi, Andrew Richards, and Mina Hoorfar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30910

Numerical Modelling of Mass Transfer Through Micro and Nano Capillaries

Ali M. Koupaei, Sushanta K. Mitra, and Marc Secanell

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31220

Ex-Situ Characterization of Two-Phase Flow Regimes in Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Under Non-Isothermal Conditions

Arganthaël Berson and Jon G. Pharoah

Microfluidics

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30023

Numerical Anaysis of a Thermopneumatic Micropump

S. Shahsavari, M. H. Saidi, and M. B. Shafii

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30097

Microfluidic Pumping With Optically Induced Actuation of a Carbon Nanotube Membrane

Joseph D. Duff, Stuart J. Williams, and Balaji Panchapakesan

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30138

Prediction of Droplet Tear-Off and Meniscus Formation in the Top-Spot Experiment Using TransAT

Chidambaram Narayanan and Djamel Lakehal

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30821

A Valve-Less Rectification Minipump Based on Dynamic Rectifying Geometries

Ahmed Fadl, Stefanie Demming, Zongqin Zhang, Stephanus Büttgenbach, Manfred Krafczyk, and Donna M. L. Meyer

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30856

Optimization of Diffuser/Nozzle Dlements for Rectification Valveless Micropumps

A. Azarbadegan, C. A. Cortes-Quiroz, E. Moeendarbary, and Ian Eames

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30949

The Effect of Material Properties on the Efficiency of Valve-Less Rectification Micropumps

Ahmed Fadl, Stefanie Demming, Zongqin Zhang, Björn Hoxhold, Stephanus Büttgenbach, Manfred Krafczyk, and Donna M. L. Meyer

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30954

Measurement of Burst Pressure of Capillary Burst Valve

Hong Chen, Toru Yamada, and Mohammed Faghri

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30983

Stokes Flow Around a Rolling Cylinder: Extended Abstract

A. Merlen and C. Frankiewicz

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31207

The Effect of Different Monolithically Integrated Check Valve Designs on the Efficiency of Disposable PZT-PDMS-Micropumps

Stefanie Demming, Ahmed Fadl, Mareike Schleßmann, Björn Hoxhold, Zongqin Zhang, and Stephanus Büttgenbach

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31252

Pneumatically Actuated Diaphragm Single Chamber Micropump

Son H. Ho, Muhammad M. Rahman, Srinivas Katkoori, and Ashit Talukder

Micromixers

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30059

Demonstration of the Enhanced Mixing and Reaction Ability of an Alternate Pumping Microreactor With Visualization of the Mixing Field and the Reaction Field

Tamio Fujiwara, Hiroshi Ohue, and Takumi Urata

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30077

Numerical Simulation of a Novel Passive Micromixer With Curved Channel and Slanted Grooves

Yanfeng Fan and Ibrahim Hassan

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30145

Numerical Investigation and Geometric Parameterization of Lamination Inlet of Passive Micromixer

Yanfeng Fan and Ibrahim Hassan

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30159

Moderate Reynolds Number Mixing in a T-Channel

Susan Thomas and Tim Ameel

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30161

Injection, Transport and Removal of Gas Bubbles in Microchannels for Heat Transfer Enhancement

Daniel Attinger

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30252

Numerical Simulation of Mixing in Microchannels With Rough Surface

Dayong Yang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30398

Droplet Formation by Dripping at Micro T-Junction in Liquid-Liquid Mixing

Sujin Yeom and Sang Yong Lee

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30531

Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Geometric and Physiochemical Parameters on Biomolecule Capture Efficiency

Sina Jomeh and Mina Hoorfar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30534

Mercury Scaling of a Swirling Jet Micro-Bubble Generator

Stuart Walker and Arthur Ruggles

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30631

High Strain Rate Induced Phenomenon in Thin Nickel Films

Hanif Muhammad Khan and Sung-Gaun Kim

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30667

Quantification of Inertial Droplet Collision Mixing Rates in Confined Microchannel Flows Using Differential Fluorescence Measurements

Brian Carroll and Carlos Hidrovo

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30786

Flowfield Analysis in T-Junction Microchannel With Bubble Formations

Srikanth Pidugu, Tarek Abdel-Salam, and Tuba Bayraktar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30950

A Multifunctional Microfluidic Device Based on Bifurcation Geometry

Ahmed Fadl, Stefanie Demming, Zongqin Zhang, Björn Hoxhold, Stephanus Büttgenbach, Manfred Krafczyk, and Donna M. L. Meyer

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30966

Surface Acoustic Wave-Induced Microstreaming in Droplets for the Enhancement of Biosensing Performances

Olivier Ducloux, Elisabeth Galopin, Farzam Zoueshtiagh, Alain Merlen, and Vincent Thomy

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30971

Numerical Analysis of Mixing in a Multifunction Electromagnetic Micropump

Ala’aldeen Al-Halhouli and Stephanus Büttgenbach

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31047

Modeling the Forces Exerted on the Tool-Electrode During Spark Assisted Chemical Engraving Constant Velocity Feed-Drilling

Jana Abou Ziki, Nand Kishor M. Dhawale, and Rolf Wüthrich

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31059

Experimental Investigation on Flow and Mixing in Rotating Microfluidics

Wallace Woon-Fong Leung and Yong Ren

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31093

Mixing Process in T-Shaped Micro-Mixers With Chaotic Advection: A Numerical Approach

J. Esmaeelpanah, S. A. Kazemi, and M. Passandideh-Fard

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31113

Experimental Measurement of Mixing Lengths of Converging Particulate Flows in Microchannels

Michael Nadler and Darren L. Hitt

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31201

Sessile Water-Droplet Contact Angle: the Effect of Adsorption

H. Ghasemi and C. A. Ward

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31245

Analysis and Optimization of a Passive Micromixer With Curved-Shaped Baffles for Efficient Mixing With Low Pressure Loss in Continuous Flow

Cesar A. Cortes-Quiroz, Alireza Azarbadegan, Emadaldin Moeendarbary, and Mehrdad Zangeneh

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31257

Characterization and Optimization of a Three-Dimensional T-Type Micromixer for Convective Mixing Enhancement With Reduced Pressure Loss

Cesar A. Cortes-Quiroz, Alireza Azarbadegan, and Mehrdad Zangeneh

Nanofluidics and Nanoparticles

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30170

Nanoscale Surface Modification Techniques for Pool Boiling Enhancement: a Critical Review and Future Directions

Yen-Wen Lu and Satish G. Kandlikar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30728

Magnetic Actuation of Nanofluids With Ferromagnetic Particles

Ali Kosar, Muhsincan Sesen, Huseyin Caglar Su, Beste Bahceci, Soner Ulun, and H. Yagci Acar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30836

Transport Across Sub-Nanometer Zeolite Pores for Water Desalination

Thomas Humplik, Tahar Laoui, and Evelyn N. Wang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31020

A Comparison on the Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics of TiO2-Water Nanofluids Having Two Different Chemical Agents

Weerapun Duangthongsuk and Somchai Wongwises

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31214

An Investigation Into the Non-Uniformity of Density in Nanofluids

John Shelton and Frank Pyrtle III

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31276

The Effect of Nanoscale Surface Modification on Boiling Heat Transfer and Critical Heat Flux

Moo-Hwan Kim

Novel Applications

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30035

Experimental Investigation of Air-Water Two Phase Flow Regime in Vertical Mini Pipe

Pedram Hanafizadeh, Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, Arash Nouri Gheimasi, and Mohammad Hassan Saidi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30208

KOH-Etched Nozzles for Monodisperse Bubble Generation in Microreactors

Philipp Lang, Stefan Bammesberger, and Peter Woias

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30306

Experimental Investigation of Dielectrophoretic Behavior of Myoglobin and Silica Particles on a Microelectrode Chip

Naga Siva Kumar Gunda and Sushanta Kumar Mitra

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30308

Use of Micro-CT Images to Reconstruct Porous Media for Pore Network Model

Bijoyendra Bera and Sushanta K. Mitra

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30309

Pore Scale Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in a Berea Sandstone Core Using Lattice Boltzmann Method

Akshay C. Gunde, Sushanta K. Mitra, and Tayfun Babadagli

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30493

Experimental Analysis of a Two Phase Air-Water Flow in a Tube of Small Size Diameter Under Various Inlet Conditions

S. Zeguai, S. Chikh, L. Tadrist, and O. Rahli

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30677

The Pressure Drop and Dynamic Contact Angle of Motion of Triple-Lines in Hydrophobic Microchannels

Dongin Yu, Chiwoong Choi, and Moo-Hwan Kim

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30721

Optical Studies of Evaporation in Microchannel Arrays

Stefan Maikowske, Ruediger Lange, and Juergen J. Brandner

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30845

The Microfluidic Trapping of Antibody-Secreting Cells

Sean F. Romanuik, Samantha M. Grist, Moeed Haq, Bonnie L. Gray, Naveed Gulzar, and Jamie K. Scott

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30953

An Experimental Study of the Flow Phenomena of R134a Flowing Through a Capillary Tube

Jatuporn Kaew-On, Kitti Nilpueng, Sakkarin Chingulpitak, and Somchai Wongwises

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31001

Design of Volumetric Solar Flow Receivers

Ananthanarayanan Veeraragavan, Andrej Lenert, Evelyn N. Wang, and Salem Al-Dini

Single-Phase Liquid Flow

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30031

Lower Entropy Generation in Microchannels With Laminar Single Phase Flow

E. Galvis and J. R. Culham

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30083

Numerical Investigation of Turbulence Models for Minichannels

Emrah Deniz and Nur Pehlivanoglu

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30163

Effects of Non-Linearity of the Momentum Conservation Equation During Electrokinetic Transport in Nano and Microchannels

Subir Bhattacharjee and Noor Al Quddus

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30166

Loss Coefficients in Laminar Flows: Indispensable for the Design of Micro Flow Systems

H. Herwig, B. Schmandt, and M.-F. Uth

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30382

Effect of Surface Roughness on the Pressure Drop of Liquid Flow in Micro-Channels

Guobing Zhou and Shi-Chune Yao

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30509

Yield Stress Fluid Method to Measure the Pore Size Distribution of a Porous Medium

Aimad Oukhlef, Abdelhak Ambari, Stéphane Champmartin, and Antoine Despeyroux

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30647

Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Microchannel With Offset Micro Pin-Fins

Haleh Shafeie, Omid Abouali, and Khosrow Jafarpour

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30653

Micro Fibers Motion in a Laminar Flow in a Microchannel

Alireza Dastan and Omid Abouali

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30792

Experimental Study on Single Phase Flow in Microchannels at High Mass Flow Rates

Mehmed Rafet Özdemir and Ali Kosar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31065

Simulation of Heat Transfer in Nanoscale Flow Using Molecular Dynamics

Masoud Darbandi, Hossein Reza Abbasi, Moslem Sabouri, and Rasool Khaledi-Alidusti

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31131

Heat Transfer Experiments of Ethylene Glycol-Water Mixture in Multi-Port Serpentine Meso-Channel Heat Exchanger Slab

Mesbah G. Khan and Amir Fartaj

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31298

Flow Investigation in a Disk Micropump

André Lisibach, Ernesto Casartelli, and Noah Schmid

Two-Phase Flow

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30164

Viscous Core-Annular Flows in Microfluidic Chambers

Samira Darvishi and Thomas Cubaud

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30191

Numerical Study on Droplet Formation in a Microchannel T-Junction Using the VOF Method

Shobeir Aliasghar Zadeh and Rolf Radespiel

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30214

Measurement of Interfacial Area Production and Permeability Within Porous Media

Dustin Crandall, Goodarz Ahmadi, and Duane Smith

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30217

Micro-Scale Flow Pattern Classification Based on the K-Means Clustering Algorithm

Daniel Sempértegui and Gerhart Ribatski

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30276

Numerical Studies on Non-Boiling Two-Phase Flows in Microtubes and Microchannels: A Review

V. Talimi and Y. S. Muzychka

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30302

Two Phase Heat Transfer of Ammonia in a Mini/Micro Channel

M. Hamayun Maqbool, Björn Palm, R. Khodabandeh, and Rashid Ali

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30353

The Dynamic Behavior of an Adaptive Liquid Microlens Driven by a Ferrofluidic Transducer

Wenjia Xiao and Steffen Hardt

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30406

Stability Analysis of Cassie-Baxter State Under Pressure Driven Flow

Tae Jin Kim and Carlos H. Hidrovo

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30443

Two Algorithms for Solving Coupled Particle Dynamics and Flow Field Equations in Two-Phase Flows

R. Kamali and S. A. Shekoohi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30460

Numerical Study on Liquid Droplet Formation in T-Junction Microchannel

Xiao-Bin Li, Juan-Cheng Yang, and Feng-Chen Li

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30502

Kinematics of a Free Particle Moving Between Two Parallel Walls

Stéphane Champmartin, Abdelhak Ambari, and Ben Richou Abderrahim Abderrahim

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30551

Bubble Formation on Top of Submerged Needle and Substrate Plates

Saeid Vafaei, Panagiota Angeli, and Dongsheng Wen

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30882

Pressure Drop of Accelerating Slug Flow in Microchannels: Modeling and Experiment

Shahnawaz Molla, Dmitry Eskin, and Farshid Mostowfi

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30967

Experimental Investigation of Flow Patterns, Pressure Drop, and Flow Instability During Flow Boiling in a Cross-Linked Microchannel Heat Sink

Ayman Megahed

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30989

Heat and Mass Transfer in the Corner Flow Region of Vertical Microgrooves

Xuelei Nie, Xuegong Hu, Suresh V. Garimella, and Dawei Tang

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-30999

Numerical Study of Disperse, Multiphase Microslug Formation at a Microchannel Junction

M. Ryan McDevitt, Darren L. Hitt, and Justin W. McCabe

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31012

Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of R-134a in Horizontal and Vertical Mini-Channels

Sira Saisorn, Jatuporn Kaew-On, and Somchai Wongwises

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31021

Two Phase Pressure Drop of Ammonia in a Mini/Micro-Channel

M. Hamayun Maqbool, Björn Palm, R. Khodabandeh, and Rashid Ali

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31056

Viscous Oil-Water Flow in a Microchannel: Flow Patterns and Flow Development

Hooman Foroughi and Masahiro Kawaji

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31063

2D Measurement and Simulation of Microparticle Cross-Sectional Distribution by Micro Process Tomography

Je-Eun Choi, Tong Zhao, and Masahiro Takei

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31073

Simulation of Dripping Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics

Sorush Khajepor, Meysam Joulaian, Ahmadreza Pishevar, and Yaser Afshar

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31155

Experimental Study of Microbubble Formation in Microchannels

T. J. John and H. Hegab

FEDSM/ICNMM2010-31267

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Two-Phase Flow Patterns in a Cross-Junction Microfluidic Chip

Dong Liu, Aritra Sur, and Lixin Yang