Physiological Microflows

Jacques Dufaux (1) , Marc Durand (1) , Gérard Guiffant (1) , Kristine Jurski (1)

1 MSC - Matière et Systèmes Complexes

The recent development of microscale technologies makes it possible to design complex microsystems devoted to transport, dosing, mixing, analysis or even synthesis of fluids. Applications are numerous and exist in almost every industrial field, from biotechnology and healthcare to aeronautics and advanced materials manufacturing. Microfluidics is a relatively new research area, usually comprising work with microsystems and involving internal fluid flows with characteristic dimensions of the order of one micrometer (1 x 10 -6 m).

Mots clés: blood flow determination; intravascular pressure determination; microcirculatory blood network; microvascular network; physiological microflows; velocity determination

Domaines: Matière Molle [cond-mat.soft]

Jacques Dufaux, Marc Durand, Gérard Guiffant, Kristine Jurski. Physiological Microflows: Chapter 4. Stéphane Colin. Microfluidics, Wiley; ISTE, pp.121-194, 2010, 978-1-118-59988-4. ⟨10.1002/9781118599839.ch4⟩. ⟨hal-00515547⟩