Subject Code: ME6L160 Prerequisites: None	Microfluidics	L – T – P : 3 –0 – 0	Credits: 3
Introduction: Fundamentals of kinetic theory-molecular models, micro and macroscopic properties, binary collisions, distribution functions, Boltzmann equation and Maxwellian distribution functions, continuum hypothesis and deviations from the same, scaling laws for micro-domains, Microscale gas flows: Wall slip effects and accommodation coefficients, flow and heat transfer analysis of microscaleCouette flows, Pressure driven gas micro-flows with wall slip effects, heat transfer in micro-Poiseuille flows, effects of compressibility, introductory concepts on gas flows in transitional and free molecular regimes, some representative applications of micro-scale gas flows in accelerometers, micro-propulsion and micro-nozzles, Microscale liquid flows: Pressure driven liquid microflow, apparent slip effects, physics of near-wall microscale liquid flows, capillary flows, electro-kinetically driven liquid micro-flows and electric double layer (EDL) effects, concepts of electroosmosis, electrophoresis and dielectro-phoresis, analysis of hydro-dynamically and thermally fully developed electro-osmotic flows, ac electro-osmosis, an introduction to fluid dynamics over nano scales (nanofluidics), concepts of nano-fluids and their augmented transport characteristics, An introduction to bio-microfluidics and some illustrative applications (drug delivery, DNA hybridization, leuokocyte rolling etc.), An introduction to special computational modelling of micro-flows: MD and DSMC methods. Recommended Books: Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics, Nam-Trung Nguyen, Steven T. Wereley, Artech House (2002). Theoretical Microfluidics, HenrikBruus, Oxford University Press, (2008). Nguyen, N. T., Werely, S. T., Fundamentals and applications of Microfluidics, Artech house Inc., 2002. Bruus, H., Theoretical Microfluidics, Oxford University Press Inc., 2008. Madou, M. J., Fundamentals of Microfabrication, CRC press, 2002. Tabeling, P., Introduction to microfluidics, Oxford University Press Inc., 2005. Kirby, B.J., Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics: Transport in Microfluidic Devices, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Colin, S., Microfluidics, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Subject Code: ME6L160
Prerequisites: None

Microfluidics

L – T – P : 3 –0 – 0

Credits: 3

Introduction: Fundamentals of kinetic theory-molecular models, micro and macroscopic properties, binary collisions, distribution functions, Boltzmann equation and Maxwellian distribution functions, continuum hypothesis and deviations from the same, scaling laws for micro-domains, Microscale gas flows: Wall slip effects and accommodation coefficients, flow and heat transfer analysis of microscaleCouette flows, Pressure driven gas micro-flows with wall slip effects, heat transfer in micro-Poiseuille flows, effects of compressibility, introductory concepts on gas flows in transitional and free molecular regimes, some representative applications of micro-scale gas flows in accelerometers, micro-propulsion and micro-nozzles, Microscale liquid flows: Pressure driven liquid microflow, apparent slip effects, physics of near-wall microscale liquid flows, capillary flows, electro-kinetically driven liquid micro-flows and electric double layer (EDL) effects, concepts of electroosmosis, electrophoresis and dielectro-phoresis, analysis of hydro-dynamically and thermally fully developed electro-osmotic flows, ac electro-osmosis, an introduction to fluid dynamics over nano scales (nanofluidics), concepts of nano-fluids and their augmented transport characteristics, An introduction to bio-microfluidics and some illustrative applications (drug delivery, DNA hybridization, leuokocyte rolling etc.), An introduction to special computational modelling of micro-flows: MD and DSMC methods.
Recommended Books:

Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics, Nam-Trung Nguyen, Steven T. Wereley, Artech House (2002).
Theoretical Microfluidics, HenrikBruus, Oxford University Press, (2008).
Nguyen, N. T., Werely, S. T., Fundamentals and applications of Microfluidics, Artech house Inc., 2002.
Bruus, H., Theoretical Microfluidics, Oxford University Press Inc., 2008.

Madou, M. J., Fundamentals of Microfabrication, CRC press, 2002.
Tabeling, P., Introduction to microfluidics, Oxford University Press Inc., 2005.
Kirby, B.J., Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics: Transport in Microfluidic Devices, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colin, S., Microfluidics, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.