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Microfluidics Endsem 2015-NPTEL

This document contains the questions that will be asked on the end-of-semester examination for the courses Microfluidics and Micro-scale Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer at IIT Kharagpur in April 2015. It lists 5 questions, each asking students to derive equations related to fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transport in microfluidic systems. The questions cover topics like oscillatory pressure-driven flow, capillary filling of non-Newtonian fluids, drop spreading due to gravity, streaming potential in microchannels, and effective dispersion in parallel plate flow.

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Microfluidics Endsem 2015-NPTEL

This document contains the questions that will be asked on the end-of-semester examination for the courses Microfluidics and Micro-scale Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer at IIT Kharagpur in April 2015. It lists 5 questions, each asking students to derive equations related to fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transport in microfluidic systems. The questions cover topics like oscillatory pressure-driven flow, capillary filling of non-Newtonian fluids, drop spreading due to gravity, streaming potential in microchannels, and effective dispersion in parallel plate flow.

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Microfluidics (ME60310)/ Micro-scale Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer

(ME41616), End-Semester Examination, April 2015, IIT Kharagpur,


Full Marks = 100

All questions are compulsory, carrying equal marks.

Q1.
1 dp 1 dp
(a)An oscillatory pressure gradient (of the form:
− = − + A sin ωt ) is
ρ dx ρ dx 0
applied on a fluid flowing through a parallel plate microchannel, with no slip at the walls.
Determine the velocity field as a function of position and time.
(b) What are the major limitations of the Stokes law for calculating viscous drag, even in
low Reynolds number limits?

Q2. A parallel plate horizontal micro-capillary is being filled up with blood, which is
effectively treated as a non-Newtonian fluid, the stress tensor for which is described as:
1
τ = µapp [ 2Γ ] , where Γ = ∇v + ∇vT  is the rate of strain tensor. For simplicity, the
2 

constitutive behaviour of blood is approximately described by a power law model,


1
n −1 1 2
described by µ app = a ( 2Γ ) , where Γ =  ( Γ : Γ )  . In effect, this reduces to τ = aγɺ n ,
2 
where γɺ is the rate of deformation. The viscous resistances against the capillary
movement are approximated from fully developed flow considerations. Assuming a
constant contact angle, derive a governing differential equation for capillary meniscus
displacement, as a function of time, by using a reduced order model. There is no need to
solve this equation.

Q3. Consider a long cylindrical drop spreading on a flat horizontal surface due to
gravitational forces acting on it (as shown in the figure). Determine the height of the
drop (h) as a function of t and x. Also find the radius of the drop L(t) as a function of time.
State the assumptions that you make.
Q4.
Consider pressure-driven flow of a 1:1 symmetric electrolyte in a parallel plate
microchannel. The zeta potential is small enough so that the Debye-Hückel linearization
is valid. Derive an expression for the streaming potential induced in its most simplified
form, and express the same through a suitable non-dimensional scheme.

Q5. Consider the advection-diffusion of a species in a parallel plate microchannel of


height 2H. Following Taylor’s approach, derive an expression for the effective dispersion
coefficient as function of the Peclet number and the channel height. State all the

u 3 y2 
assumptions that you make. The velocity profile can be taken as: = 1 − 2  ,
uav 2  H 

where y is the transverse coordinate.

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