期刊
MICROFLUIDICS AND NANOFLUIDICS
卷 6, 期 5, 页码 647-660出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0343-z
关键词
Magnetic microspheres; Microfluidics; Cell separation; CFD
资金
- BRNS
- Department of Atomic Energy through BRNS-YSR Award scheme
Magnetophoretic isolation of biological cells in a microfluidic environment has strong relevance in biomedicine and biotechnology. A numerical analysis of magnetophoretic cell separation using magnetic microspheres in a straight and a T-shaped microfluidic channel under the influence of a line dipole is presented. The effect of coupled particle-fluid interactions on the fluid flow and particle trajectories are investigated under different particle loading and dipole strengths. Microchannel flow and particle trajectories are simulated for different values of dipole strength and position, particle diameter and magnetic susceptibility, fluid viscosity and flow velocity in both the microchannel configurations. Residence times of the captured particles within the channel are also computed. The capture efficiency is found to be a function of two nondimensional parameters, alpha and beta. The first parameter denotes the ratio of magnetic to viscous forces, while the second one represents the ratio of channel height to the distance of the dipole from the channel wall. Two additional nondimensional parameters gamma (representing the inverse of normalized offset distance of the dipole from the line of symmetry) and sigma (representing the inverse of normalized width of the outlet limbs) are found to influence the capture efficiency in the T-channel. Results of this investigation can be applied for the selection of a wide range of operating and design parameters for practical microfluidic cell separators.
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