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.

Papers reflect the state of the art in the field of micro- and nanofluidics

Autorentext
Dr.-Ing. habil. Jochen Fröhlich ist Privatdozent am Institut für Technische Chemie und Polymerchemie der Universität Karlsruhe (TH).

Inhalt
Plenary Lectures.- Nonlinear Electrokinetic Flow: Theory, Experiment, and Potential Applications.- Fluid Particle Models for the Simulation of Microfluids.- Micro-channel Flows.- Semi-analytical Solution of the Density Profile for a Gas Close to a Solid Wall.- Comprehensive Analysis of Dewetting Profiles to Quantify Hydrodynamic Slip.- Variation of Transport Properties Along Nanochannels: A Study by Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics.- Estimation of the Poiseuille Number in Gas Flows Through Rectangular Nano- and Micro-channels in the Whole Range of the Knudsen Number.- Moving Contact Line with Balanced Stress Singularities.- Complex Fluids.- Clarification and Control of Micro Plasma Flow with Wall Interaction.- Electrochemical Control of the Surface Energy of Conjugated Polymers for Guiding Samples in Microfluidic Systems.- Small Scale Cavitation Model.- Experimental and Theoretical Approach for Analysis of Flow Induced by Micro Organisms Existing on Surface of Granular Activated Sludge.- Numerical Modeling.- Coupling Atomistic and Continuum Descriptions Using Dynamic Control.- Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Pulsed Jet in T-Shaped Micromixer.- Simulation of High-Speed Flow in ?-Rockets for Space Propulsion Applications.- Numerical Study on the Flow Physics of a T-Shaped Micro Mixer.- Splitting for Highly Dissipative Smoothed Particle Dynamics.