Linkage - CSIRO - Grant ID: LC0348317

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LC0348317

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

DROP DEFORMATION IN CONFINED MICROFLUIDIC GEOMETRIES. Increasingly, high technology applications in biotechnology and microtechnology industries need to process complex (non-Newtonian) fluids with dispersed particles/droplets in channels as small as several microns (microfluidics). A computational fluid dynamic model of non-Newtonian droplet deformation in microfluidic geometries will be developed, and validated using experimental measurements of the flow field in this project. The aim is to understand and quantify factors influencing droplet deformation. Coupling non-Newtonian characteristics with microfluidic geometries will allow the continuous manufacture of micro-particles of specified size and shape for existing and new applications, and will provide guidance for further extending the process to nano-particle manufacture.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 29-10-2003

End Date: 28-10-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage - CSIRO

Funding Amount: $193,035.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Interdisciplinary Engineering | Nanotechnology | Fluidization And Fluid Mechanics | Heat And Mass Transfer Operations

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial instrumentation | Medical instrumentation | Scientific instrumentation |

Other Keywords

Fluidization And Fluid Mechanics | Heat And Mass Transfer Operations | Industrial instrumentation | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Medical instrumentation | Nanotechnology | Scientific instrumentation

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