Abstract
The flow of a blood analogue solution past a microfabricated hyperbolic
contraction followed by an abrupt expansion was investigated experimentally. The shape of the contraction was designed in order to impose a nearly constant strain rate to the fluid along the centerline of the microgeometry. The flow patterns of the blood analogue solution and of a Newtonian reference fluid (deionized water), captured using streak line imaging, are quite distinct and illustrate the complex behavior of the blood analogue solution flowing through the microgeometry. The flow of the blood analogue solution shows elastic-driven effects with vortical structures emerging upstream of the contraction, which are absent in Newtonian fluid flow. In both cases the flow also develops instabilities downstream of the expansion but these are inertia driven. Therefore, for the blood analogue solution at high flow rates the competing effects of inertia and elasticity lead to complex flow patterns and unstable flow develops.
contraction followed by an abrupt expansion was investigated experimentally. The shape of the contraction was designed in order to impose a nearly constant strain rate to the fluid along the centerline of the microgeometry. The flow patterns of the blood analogue solution and of a Newtonian reference fluid (deionized water), captured using streak line imaging, are quite distinct and illustrate the complex behavior of the blood analogue solution flowing through the microgeometry. The flow of the blood analogue solution shows elastic-driven effects with vortical structures emerging upstream of the contraction, which are absent in Newtonian fluid flow. In both cases the flow also develops instabilities downstream of the expansion but these are inertia driven. Therefore, for the blood analogue solution at high flow rates the competing effects of inertia and elasticity lead to complex flow patterns and unstable flow develops.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing |
| Subtitle of host publication | Recent Trends |
| Editors | J.M.R.S. Tavares, R.M.N. Jorge |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Springer London |
| Pages | Ch 15 pp 265-279 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-94-007-0010-9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Publication series
| Name | Computational Methods in Applied Sciences |
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| Publisher | Springer |
| Volume | 15 |
Keywords
- blood analogue fluid
- extensional flow
- microfluidics
- viscoelasticity
- flow visualization
- hyperbolic contraction