Since the discovery of inertial focusing in 1961, numerous theories have been put forward to
explain the migration of particles in inertial flows, but a complete understanding is still …

Inertial particle microfluidics (IPMF) is an emerging technology for the manipulation and
separation of microparticles and biological cells. Since the flow physics of IPMF is complex …

Microfluidic flow is commonly employed in the biological, chemical, or physical analysis of
samples in small fluid volumes because of the typical lack of nonlinear phenomena, with …

The characteristics of rigid spheroid migration in square channel flow of power-law fluids are
numerically investigated by the three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann method. The effects of …

Inertial effect has been extensively used in manipulating both engineered particles and
biocolloids in microfluidic platforms. The design of inertial microfluidic devices largely relies …

Inertial microfluidics is utilized as a powerful passive method for particle and cell
manipulation, which uses the hydrodynamic forces of the fluid in the channel to focus …

Precise determination of microfluidic behaviors is theoretically significant and has shown
remarkable application prospects. This work numerically studies the self-ordering and …

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are scarce cancer cells that rarely spread from primary or
metastatic tumors inside the patient's bloodstream. Determining the genetic characteristics of …

Lab-on-a-chip devices based on inertial microfluidics have emerged as a promising
technique to manipulate particles in a precise way. Inertial microfluidics exploits internal …

Controlling heat and mass transfer in particulate suspensions has many applications in fuel
combustion, food industry, pollution control and life science. We perform direct numerical …