Courses
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MAE 5240/6240 Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics.
Introduction to fluid mechanics in micro- and nanofabricated devices.
Fluid mechanics: physicochemical description of hydrodynamics, mixing phenomena
at low Re, capillarity, double layer phenomena and electrokinetic effects, optical and
electrical particle manipulation, nanofluidic applications such as entropic
and confinement effects, nonlinear E-field effects. Some topics include Maxwell and Navier-Stokes equations,
Couette/Poiseuille flow,
Stokes flow,
fluid circuits,
microfluidic mixing,
potential flow,
mass and charge transport,
solution chemistry,
electrodynamics,
the electrical double layer,
electroosmosis,
electrophoresis, dielectrophoresis,
induced-charge electrokinetics,
chemical separations,
DNA transport, and
zeta potential.
Click the link for an online version
of the
microfluidics textbook used for this class. For those interested in students' evaluation
of effort and time load for this course, please see question 14 on the course evaluations (available to Cornell community only):
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MAE 4230/5230 Intermediate Fluid Dynamics.
Spring 2009 students--Click Here for Blackboard Course Webpage
Emphasis is placed on
both the fundamental principles and numerical calculation of real flows
using a computational fluid dynamics package. Topics covered include some
exact solutions to the
Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layers, wakes and jets, separation,
compressible flow, and turbulence. For those interested in students' evaluation
of effort and time load for this course, please see question 14 on the course evaluations (available to Cornell community only):
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MAE 427 Experimental Laboratory in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer.
Laboratory
exercises in fluid mechanics and the thermal sciences. Measurements of flame
temperature, pressure, heat transfer, viscosity, lift and drag, fluid-flow rate,
effects of turbulence, air foil stall, flow visualization, and spark-ignition
engine performance. Instrumentation, techniques and analysis, and interpretation of results.
Biweekly written assignments with extensive feedback.
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A
high-pressure microfluidic valve produced by
polymerizing a fluoroacrylate polymer
inside a fused silica microsystem
(click here for source).
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An image (using fluorescence microscopy) of chondrocytes
seeded into an
engineered tissue matrix.
We are studying
the growth and matrix synthesis of these cells in response
to varying physicochemical stimuli, particularly electrokinetic
effects associated with physiological loading.
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