Analytical Modeling and Numerical Simulations on the Scaling of Biomicrofluidic Droplets

Abstract:

Biomicrofluidic silhouettes brought about scientific challenges merited to be investigated through explicit florescence observation, implicit physical-chemical analysis and intermediate conductive level manipulation. Droplet generation, as the typical biomicrofluidic phenomenon, is a complicated dynamic process. In this work, we established both linear and non-linear models to describe the biomicrofluidic droplet variation through applied mathematical techniques, in order to find the corresponding summarizations. Model analysis showed that non-linear models presented ameliorated descriptive capacity.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 968)
• Pages: 235-239
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.968.235
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Pei Yuan He*, Li Guo Zhang
• Keywords: Analytical Simulation, Data Analysis, Intelligent Control, Numerical Modeling, Scaling

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