Tech Papers
Microfluidics Applications
Listed below are articles and papers on the use of FLOW-3D in the field of Microfluidics Applications. Linked Tech Papers are downloadable. Use a PDF viewer or Adobe Acrobat to view. If a technical paper is not linked to our online library, call or email us at Flow Science and we will send you a copy.
26-08 
Pamela J. Waterman, First-Pass CFD Analyses: Part 2, Desktop Engineering, November 1, 2008
09-08 M. Ren and H. Wijshoff, Thermal effect on the penetration of an ink droplet onto a porous medium, Proc. Eurotherm2008 MNH, 1 (2008)
04-08 Delametter, Christopher N., MEMS development in less than half the time, Small Times, Online Edition, May 2008
02-08 Renat A. Sultanov, Dennis Guster, Brent Engelbrekt and Richard Blankenbecler, 3D Computer Simulations of Pulsatile Human Blood Flows in Vessels and in the Aortic Arch: Investigation of Non-Newtonian Characteristics of Human Blood, The Journal of Computational Physics, arXiv:0802.2362v1 [physics.comp-ph], February 2008
01-08 Herman Wijshoff, thesis: University of Twente, Structure- and fluid dynamics in piezo inkjet printheads, ISBN 978-90-365-2582-4, Venlo, The Netherlands January 2008
30-07 A. K. Sen, J. Darabi, and D. R. Knapp, Simulation and parametric study of a novel multi-spray emitter for ESI–MS applications, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Volume 3, Number 3, June 2007 , pp. 283-298(16)
28-07 Dan Soltman and Vivek Subramanian, Inkjet-Printed Line Morphologies and Temperature Control of the Coffee Ring Effect, Langmuir; 2008; ASAP Web Release Date: 16-Jan-2008; (Research Article) DOI: 10.1021/la7026847
23-07 A K Sen and J Darabi, Droplet ejection performance of a monolithic thermal inkjet print head, Journal of Micromechanical and Microengineering, vol.17, pp.1420-1427 (2007) doi:10.1088/0960-1317/17/8/002; Abstract only: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=41352444.1/0960-1317/17/8/002
18-07 Herman Wisjhoff, Better Printheads Via Simulation, Desktop Engineering, October 2007, Vol. 13, Issue 2
17-07 Jos de Jong, Ph.D. Thesis: University of Twente, Air entrapment in piezo inkjet printing, ISBN 978-90-365-2483-4, http://pof.tnw.utwente.nl/5_publications/5_theses.html, April 2007
15-07 Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Jun Zeng, (Ed.), Design Automation Methods and Tools for Microfluidics-Based Biochips, Springer, September 2006.
14-07 Fei Su and Jun Zeng, Computer-aided design and test for digital microfluidics, IEEE Design & Test of Computers,” 24(1), 2007, 60-70.
13-07 Jun Zeng, Modeling and simulation of electrified droplets and its application to computer-aided design of digital microfluidics, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 25(2), 2006, 224-233.
12-07 Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Jun Zeng, (2005), Automated top-down design for microfluidic biochips, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, 1(3), 2005, 186–223.
01-07 Wijshoff, Herman, Drop formation mechanisms in piezo-acoustic inkjet, NSTI-Nanotech 2007, ISBN 1420061844 Vol. 3, 2007)
23-06 John J. Uebbing, Stephan Hengstler, Dale Schroeder, Shalini Venkatesh, and Rick Haven, Heat and Fluid Flow in an Optical Switch Bubble, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 15, No. 6, December 2006
21-06 Wijshoff, Herman, Manipulating Drop Formation in Piezo Acoustic Inkjet, Proc. IS&T’s NIP22, 79 (2006)
20-06 J. de Jong, H. Reinten, M. van den Berg, H. Wijshoff, M. Versluis, G.de Bruin, A. Prosperetti and D. Lohse, Air entrapment in piezo-driven inkjet printheads, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120(3), 1257 (2006)
11-06 A. K. Sen, J. Darabi, D. R. Knapp and J. Liu, Modeling and Characterization of a Carbon Fiber Emitter for Electrospray Ionization, 1 MEMS and Microsystems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 300 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA, 2 Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
5-06 E. P. Furlani, B. G. Price, G. Hawkins, and A. G. Lopez,
Thermally
Induced Marangoni Instability of Liquid Microjets with Application to Continuous
Inkjet Printing, Proceedings of NSTI Nanotech Conference
2006, Vol. 2, pp 534-537.
28-05 O B Fawehinmi, P H Gaskell, P K Jimack, N Kapur, and H M Thompson, A combined experimental and computational fluid dynamics analysis of the dynamics of drop formation, May 2005. DOI: 10.1243/095440605X31788
5-05 E. P. Furlani, Thermal
Modulation and Instability of Newtonian Liquid Microjets, presented
at Nanotech 2005, Anaheim, CA, May 8-12, 2005.
1-05 C.W. Hirt, Electro-Hydrodynamics
of Semi-Conductive Fluids: With Application to Electro-Spraying, Flow
Science Technical Note #70, FSI-05-TN70
19-04 G. F. Yao, Modeling
of Electroosmosis Without Resolving Physics Inside a Electric Double Layer,
Flow Science Technical Note (FSI-04-TN69)
12-04 Jun Zeng and Tom Korsmeyer, Principles of Droplet Electrohydrodynamics for Lab-on-a-Chip, Lab. Chip. Journal, 2004, 4(4), 265-277
9-04 Constantine N. Anagnostopoulos, James M. Chwalek, Christopher
N. Delametter, Gilbert A. Hawkins, David L. Jeanmaire, John A. Lebens, Ali Lopez,
and David P. Trauernicht, Micro-Jet
Nozzle Array for Precise Droplet Metering and Steering Having Increased Droplet
Deflection, Proceedings
of the 12th International Conference on Solid State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems,
sponsored by IEEE, Boston, June 8-12, 2003, pp. 368-71
8-04 Christopher N. Delametter,
David P. Trauernicht, James M. Chwalek, Novel
Microfluidic Jet Deflection: Significant Modeling Challenge with Great Application
Potential, Technical Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference
on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems sponsored by NSTI, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, April 21-25, 2002, pp. 44-47
6-04 D. Vadillo*, G. Desie**, A Soucemarianadin*, Spreading
Behavior of Single and Multiple Drops, *Laboratoire des Ecoulements
Geophysiques et Industriels (LEGI), and **AGFA-Gevaert Group N.V., XXI ICTAM,
15-21 August 2004, Warsaw, Poland
2-04 Herman Wijshoff, Free
Surface Flow and Acousto-Elastic Interaction in Piezo Inkjet, Nanotech
2004, sponsored by the Nano Science & Technology
Institute, Boston,
MA, March 2004
30-03 D Souders, I Khan and GF Yao, Alessandro Incognito,
and Matteo Corrado, A
Numerical Model for Simulation of Combined Electroosmotic and Pressure Driven
Flow in Microdevices, 7th International Symposium on Fluid Control,
Measurement and Visualization
27-03 Jun Zeng, Daniel Sobek and Tom Korsmeyer, Electro-Hydrodynamic
Modeling of Electrospray Ionization: CAD for a µFluidic Device-Mass Spectrometer
Interface, Agilent Technologies Inc, paper presented at Transducers
2003, June 03 Boston (note: Reference #10 is to FLOW-3D)
17-03 John Uebbing, Switching
Fiber-optic Circuits with Microscopic Bubbles, Sensors
Magazine, May 2003, Vol 20, No 5, p 36-42
16-03 CFD Speeds Development of MEMS-based Printing Technology, MicroNano Magazine, June 2003, Vol 8, No 6, p 16
3-03 Simulation Speeds Design of Microfluidic Medical Devices, R&D Magazine, March 2003, pp 18-19
1-03 Simulations Helps Microscopic Bubbles Switch Fiber-Optic Circuits, Agilent Technologies, Fiberoptic Product News, January 2003, pp 22-23
27-02 Feng, James Q., A General Fluid Dynamic Analysis of Drop Ejection in Drop-on-Demand Ink Jet Devices, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology®, Volume 46, Number 5, September/October 2002
1-02 Feixia Pan, Joel Kubby, and Jingkuang Chen, Numerical Simulation of Fluid-structure Interaction in a MEMS Diaphragm Drop Ejector, Xerox Wilson Research Center, Institute of Physics Publishing, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 12 (2002), PII: SO960-1317(02)27439-2, pp. 70-76
34-01 Furlani, E.P., Delametter, C.N., Chwalek, J.M., and
Trauernicht, D., Surface
Tension Induced Instability of Viscous Liquid Jets, Fourth International
Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, April 2001
12-01 C. N.
Delametter, Eastman Kodak Company, Micro
Resolution,
Mechanical Engineering, Col 123/No 7, July 2001, pp 70-72
11-01 C. N. Delametter,
Eastman Kodak Company, Surface
Tension Induced Instability of Viscous Liquid Jets, Technical Proceeding
of the Fourth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems,
April 2001
9-01 Aman Khan, Unipath Limited Research and Development, Effects of Reynolds Number on Surface Rolling in Small Drops, PVP-Col 431, Emerging Technologies for Fluids, Structures and Fluids, Structures and Fluid-Structure Interaction-2001
2-00 Narayan V. Deshpande, Significance of Inertance and Resistance in Fluidics of Thermal Ink-Jet Transducers, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, Volume 40, Number 5, Sept./Oct. 1996, pp.457-461
4-98 D. Deitz, Connecting the Dots with CFD, Mechanical Engineering Magazine, pp. 90-91, March 1998
14-94 M. P. O'Hare, N. V. Deshpande, and D. J. Drake, Drop Generation Processes in TIJ Printheads, Xerox Corporation, Adv. Imaging Business Unit, IS&T's Tenth International Congress on Advances in Non-Impact Printing, Tech. 1994
14-92 Asai, A., Three-Dimensional Calculation of Bubble Growth and Drop Ejection in a Bubble Jet Printer, Journal of Fluids Engineering Vol. 114 December 1992:638-641
