Theoretical Microfluidics (Oxford Master Series in Physics) |  | Author: Henrik Bruus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Microfluidics is a young and rapidly expanding scientific discipline, which deals with fluids and solutions in miniaturized systems, the so-called lab-on-a-chip systems. It has applications in chemical engineering, pharmaceutics, biotechnology and medicine. As the lab-on-a-chip systems grow in complexity, a proper theoretical understanding becomes increasingly important.
The basic idea of the book is to provide a self-contained formulation of the theoretical framework of microfluidics, and at the same time give physical motivation and example from lab-on-a-chip technology. After three chapters introducing microfluidics, the governing questions for mass, momentum and energy, and some basic flow solutions, the following 14 chapters treat hydraulic resistance/compliance, diffusion/dispersion, time-dependent flow, capillarity, electro-and magneto-hydydrodynamics, thermal transport, two-phase flow, complex flow patterns and acousto-fluidics, as well as the new fields of opto-and nano-fluidics. Throughout the book simple models with analytical solutions are presented to provide the student with a thorough physical understanding of order of magnitudes and various selected micorfluidic phenomena and devices.
The book grew out of a set of well-tested lecture notes. It is with its many pedagogical exercises designed as a textbook for an advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course. IT is also well suited for self-study.
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 This book is a mush-have for mechanical engineers! June 24, 2008
M. B. Andersen
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm the proud owner of this book and know the author personally. If you buy this book you won't be disappointed. It serves as an excellent introduction to microfluidics. I would like to stress the consistency of this book-the author knows about science which is clear reflected in the book!
I suggest interested readers go to http://www.nanotech.dtu.dk/Research/Theory/TMF.aspx to find more related stuff.
A mathematical introduction to theoretical microfluidics March 31, 2010
L. Andersen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
I bought this book for my bachelor thesis on acoustofluidics and must say it did not let me down. The presentation of the field is very thorough and clear, there are no hand-waving arguments and you feel that the author really understands his stuff. It is of course not as thorough as Fluid Mechanics (Course of Theoretical Physics) by Landau and Lifshitz, but much easier to understand.
I would definitely recommend this book for advanced undergraduates or graduates about to learn microfluidics, but make sure you have a good understanding of partial differential equations, vector analysis and basic mechanics.
 Good theoretical background for those who aren't shy of mathematics October 30, 2008
Dirk vS
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book provides an excellent mathematical explanation of fluid behaviour in microfluidics. It is maths-heavy: in order to benefit fully from this text, the reader should be very comfortable with vector calculus, PDEs, and basic fluid mechanics. My only complaint is that, at certain points, it is difficult to obtain a physical intuition of what is going on.
My favourite feature of this book is the problem set at the end of each chapter. Each problem comes with a full, worked out solution and accompanying explanation. This is very helpful in developing a deeper understanding of the topic, and really sets this book apart from most other textbooks I have seen.
Good, but some odd approaches May 25, 2010
Eric L. (Ann Arbor, MI)
I'm a Ph.D. student working in a microfluidics laboratory, and my research group and I have been making our way through this book in our group meetings and studying different chapters. It's a good book, but we are often stumped on some of the approaches taken in working out various derivations, when more logical approaches seem apparent to us. I also find myself wishing that the chapters would go a little more in depth on some of the applications (there is some but I would like more), but I guess they're taking the title "Theoretical" seriously. Still, overall it's a good treatment of the subject in a field where there aren't a lot of in-depth theoretical books on the background and underlying physics of the subject.
Another note: the mathematical notations follow European convention, which can on occasion be confusing for an American when it comes to their calculus-based equations. It's not too hard to figure out though.
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