Microflows and Nanoflows Fundamentals and Simulation /

• Main Authors: Karniadakis, George (Author), Beskok, Ali (Author), Aluru, Narayan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Antman, S.S (Editor), Marsden, J.E (Editor), Sirovich, L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 29
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Fluids.; Fluid mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Nanotechnology.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Mechanical Engineering.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

In the last few years there has been significant progress in the development of microfluidics and nanofluidics at the application as well as at the fundamental and simulation levels. This book provides a comprehensive summary of these changes describing fluid flow in micro and nano configurations. W...

Table of Contents:

• Gas Flows
• Governing Equations and Slip Models
• Shear-Driven Flows
• Pressure-Driven Flows
• Thermal Effects in Microscales
• Prototype Applications of Gas Flows
• Basic Concepts and Technologies
• Liquid Flows
• Electrokinetic Flows
• Surface Tension-Driven Flows
• Mixers and Chaotic Advection
• Simple Fluids in Nanochannels
• Water in Nanochannels
• Electroosmotic Flow in Nanochannels
• Functional Fluids and Functionalized Nanotubes
• Simulation Techniques
• Numerical Methods for Continuum Simulation
• Multiscale Modeling of Gas Flows
• Multiscale Modeling of Liquid Flows
• Reduced-Order Modeling
• Reduced-Order Simulation.