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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Particle Focusing in Microchannels

Martel, Joseph Maurice 25 February 2014 (has links)
The ability to control the motion of particles and cells in microchannels has been a center of fascination since the advent of microfluidics. Entire fields have been created in order to accomplish separation, volume reduction and overall positioning of particles and cells within microfluidic devices in the fastest and most accurate manner possible. While most of these technologies rely on low Reynolds number operation, one technique entitled inertial focusing takes advantage of the inertia of the surrounding fluid and the interaction between a particle and the channel itself which cause the lateral migration of particles across streamlines to equilibrium positions within a flow. The major advantage of inertial microfluidics in biomedical and microfluidic applications is that it is inherently high throughput being dependent on inertia whereas most microfluidic concepts are dependent on low Reynolds number operation. / Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Inertial migration of particles in microchannel flows / Migration inertielle de particules en écoulement dans des microcanaux

Gao, Yanfeng 09 May 2017 (has links)
Cette thèse a pour objectif de mieux comprendre les mécanismes physiques qui contrôlent les trajectoires de particules anisotropes dans des écoulements confinés, afin d’en améliorer la prédiction. Nous avons dans un premier temps développé des outils expérimentaux basés sur la microscopie et le traitement d’images afin d’analyser les positions de particules en écoulement confiné dans des microcanaux de section carrée. Ces outils ont ensuite permis l’obtention de résultats originaux sur la migration latérale de particules sphériques dans des écoulements faiblement inertiels. Nous avons montré en particulier que les particules migrent au centre du canal à faible nombre de Reynolds et à proximité du centre de chaque face à Reynolds plus élevé et que ces deux régimes co-existent pour des Reynolds intermédiaires. Parallèlement à leur migration latérale, les particules en écoulement confiné peuvent s’espacer régulièrement sous certaines conditions pour former des trains. Ce travail a donc consisté à mener une étude statistique pour quantifier et localiser la formation des trains. Il a été montré que la formation des trains était contrôlée par la configuration de l’écoulement dans le sillage des particules et que leurs caractéristiques, i.e., le pourcentage de particules en trains et la distance interparticulaire, étaient fonction du nombre de Reynolds particulaire. Enfin, des résultats préliminaires sur le cas d’écoulements bi-disperses ont été obtenus. Pour terminer, les perspectives et développements futurs de ce travail sont dégagés. / This thesis aims to better understand the physical mechanism controlling the trajectories of particles in confined flows in order to improve predictive models. In the first step we have developed experimental tools based on microscopy and image analysis in order to identify the particles positions in confined flows in square section microchannels. These tools have then permitted to obtain original results on the lateral migration of spherical particles in flows at low inertia. In particular we have shown that neutrally buoyant particles in square channels are focused at channel center at low Reynolds number and at four channel faces at high Reynolds, and that there is a co-existence of the two regimes for intermediate Reynolds. In addition to their lateral migration, under certain conditions, particles can also align in the flow direction to form trains of evenly spaced particles. This work has thus been devoted to the statistical study on the quantification and localization of the train formation and configuration. It has been shown that the formation of trains is controlled by the flow configuration in the wake of the particles, and that the train characteristics, i.e., the fraction of particles in trains and the interparticle distance, are functions of the particle Reynolds number. Finally, preliminary results on flows of bidisperse suspensions have been obtained. To conclude, the perspectives and future developments of this work are presented.
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Novel Approaches to Cell Isolation in Simple Inertial Microfluidic Devices

Zhou, Jian 30 October 2012 (has links)
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