Microfluidic physics - 4PMTMFP2

Goal(s)

At the end of the course the students should:

• understand how fluids flow at microscopic scale, and why this behavior is scale specific.
• know how one can manipulate them in microchips, using various driving forces.
• know how mixing can be achieved though flows are often laminars.

Content(s)

Contenu

• Physics at micrometric scale
• Fluid dynamics: application to flows in microchannels
• Capillary effects
• Mixing
• Magnetic and electrokinetics effects
• Driving flows
• Examples of microchips in commercial devices and in actual research

Basic notions of mechanics and of differential equations