Iutam Symposium On Advances In Micro- And Nanofluidics: Proceedings Of The Iutam Symposium On Advances In Micro- And Nanofluidics, Dresden, Germany, September 6-8, 2007 (iutam Bookseries)

Micro and nano-fluidics concerns fluid dynamics occurring in devices or flow configurations with minimum design length measured in micrometers or smaller. The behavior of fluids at these scales is quite different from that at the macroscopic level due to the presence of surface tension effects, wetting phenomena, Brownian diffusion and hydrodynamic interactions with immersed particles and microstructures. These effects cannot be generally represented in a classical homogeneous continuum framework. However, this triggers the development of new tools to investigate and simulate problems at the meso-scopic level. This book contains a collection of works presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Advances on Micro and Nano-fluidics held in Dresden in 2007. It covers several subjects of wide interest for micro and nano-fluidics applications focusing on both, analytical and numerical approaches. Topics covered in particular include multi-scale particle methods for numerical simulations, liquid-wall interactions and modeling approaches, modeling of immersed nano-scale structures, organized flow behavior at micro and nano-scales, and methods for control of micro- and nano-scale flows. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Nonlinear Electrokinetic Flow: Theory, Experiment, and Potential Applications....Pages 3-17 Fluid Particle Models for the Simulation of Microfluids....Pages 19-31 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Semi-analytical Solution of the Density Profile for a Gas Close to a Solid Wall....Pages 35-50 Comprehensive Analysis of Dewetting Profiles to Quantify Hydrodynamic Slip....Pages 51-65 Variation of Transport Properties Along Nanochannels: A Study by Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics....Pages 67-78 Estimation of the Poiseuille Number in Gas Flows Through Rectangular Nano- and Micro-channels in the Whole Range of the Knudsen Number....Pages 79-86 Moving Contact Line with Balanced Stress Singularities....Pages 87-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Clarification and Control of Micro Plasma Flow with Wall Interaction....Pages 97-112 Electrochemical Control of the Surface Energy of Conjugated Polymers for Guiding Samples in Microfluidic Systems....Pages 113-125 Small Scale Cavitation Model....Pages 127-143 Experimental and Theoretical Approach for Analysis of Flow Induced by Micro Organisms Existing on Surface of Granular Activated Sludge....Pages 145-153 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Coupling Atomistic and Continuum Descriptions Using Dynamic Control....Pages 157-165 Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Pulsed Jet in T-Shaped Micromixer....Pages 167-174 Simulation of High-Speed Flow in μ -Rockets for Space Propulsion Applications....Pages 175-189 Numerical Study on the Flow Physics of a T-Shaped Micro Mixer....Pages 191-205 Splitting for Highly Dissipative Smoothed Particle Dynamics....Pages 207-218 A collection of works presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Advances on Micro and Nano-fluidics held in Dresden in 2007. It covers several subjects of wide interest for micro and nano-fluidics applications focusing on both, analytical and numerical approaches. It covers topics such as multi-scale particle methods for numerical simulations.