NDLI: PIV measurements of flow within plugs in a microchannel

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Author	King, Colin Walsh, Edmond Grimes, Ronan
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The use of two-phase flow in lab-on-chip devices, where chemical and biological reagents are enclosed within plugs separated from each other by an immiscible fluid, offers significant advantages for the development of devices with high throughput of individual heterogeneous samples. Lab-on-chip devices designed to perform the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are a prime example of such developments. The internal circulation within the plugs used to transport the reagents affects the efficiency of the chemical reaction within the plug, due to the degree of mixing induced on the reagents by the flow regime. It has been hypothesised in the literature that all plug flows produce internal circulation. This work demonstrates experimentally that this is false. The particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique offers a powerful non-intrusive tool to study such flow fields. This paper presents micro-PIV experiments carried out to study the internal circulation of aqueous plugs in two phase flow within 762 μm internal diameter FEP Teflon tubing with FC-40 as the segmenting fluid. Experiments have been performed and the results are presented for plugs ranging in length from 1 to 13 mm with a bulk mean flow velocity ranging from 0.3 to 50 mm/s. The results demonstrate for the first time that circulation within the plugs is not always present and requires fluidic design considerations to ensure their generation.
Starting Page	463
Ending Page	472
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16134982
Journal	Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Volume Number	3
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	16134990
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-01-04
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Two-phase flow Plug flow Internal circulation μPIV Engineering Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics Nanotechnology Polymer Sciences Medical Microbiology Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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