Microflows and Nanoflows: Fundamentals and Simulation

George Karniadakis, Ali Beskok, Narayan Aluru (auth.), S.S. Antman, J.E. Marsden, L. Sirovich (eds.)0-387-90819-6, 978-0387-22197-7, 0387221972

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. Where as in their previous book entitled Microflows: Fundamentals and Simulation the authors covered scales from one hundred nanometers to microns (and beyond), in this new book they discuss length scales from angstroms to microns (and beyond). While still maintaining the emphasis on fundamental concepts with a mix of semianalytical, experimental, and numerical results, this book outlines their relevance to modeling and analyzing functional devices.

The text has been divided into three main subject categories: gas flows; liquid flows; and simulation techniques .The majority of the completely new developments in this book are in liquid flows and simulation techniques chapters with modified information throughout the rest of the book.

This book can be used in a two-semester graduate course. Also, selected chapters can be used for a short course or an undergraduate-level course. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in fluid mechanics, physics, and in electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering.

Review of earlier volume on Microflows from the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, 2002:
“For those who want to compute flows at the micro scale, this monograph is a must. It describes the state of the art and helps by providing the coefficients, such as needed in situations of slip. Those who wonder what new fluid dynamics there is in the microworld are served by the overview of theory and treasures of numerical methods.”

Table of contents :
Basic Concepts and Technologies….Pages 1-48
Governing Equations and Slip Models….Pages 51-77
Shear-Driven Flows….Pages 79-115
Pressure-Driven Flows….Pages 117-166
Thermal Effects in Microscales….Pages 167-193
Prototype Applications of Gas Flows….Pages 195-251
Electrokinetic Flows….Pages 255-309
Surface Tension-Driven Flows….Pages 311-342
Mixers and Chaotic Advection….Pages 343-363
Simple Fluids in Nanochannels….Pages 365-406
Water in Nanochannels….Pages 407-445
Electroosmotic Flow in Nanochannels….Pages 447-470
Functional Fluids and Functionalized Nanotubes….Pages 471-505
Numerical Methods for Continuum Simulation….Pages 509-558
Multiscale Modeling of Gas Flows….Pages 559-623
Multiscale Modeling of Liquid Flows….Pages 625-675
Reduced-Order Modeling….Pages 677-719
Reduced-Order Simulation….Pages 721-755