Wedging leakage flow and its impact on the maximum pressure head of bubble-driven micropumping
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-12-2009
Abstract
This paper reports a previously overlooked mechanism that has a considerable effect to undermine bubble-driven micropumping in a square-shaped microchannel, and therefore limits the maximum achievable pressure head. Improvement of pumping performance by rounding the microchannel is thus proposed. © 2009 IEEE.
Publication Title
4th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2009
Recommended Citation
Lemmens, R.,
&
Meng, D.
(2009).
Wedging leakage flow and its impact on the maximum pressure head of bubble-driven micropumping.
4th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2009, 1021-1025.
http://doi.org/10.1109/NEMS.2009.5068747
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