Figure 2
From: Hydrodynamic assisted multiparametric particle spectrometry
source software Blender, https://www.blender.org/) and optical micrograph of 6.8 µm silica particles passing through the free-standing region of the device (right). (b) Schematics of the calculation area, cross-section and side view. (c) FEM Simulations of the force exerted by the fluid in the radial direction of the tube as a function of the radial position (being Rtube the radius of the tube and Rparticle the radius of the particle) for a flow rate of 9 nL/s. (d) Terminal velocity as a function of pressure drops and particle diameter obtained by FEM. (e) Terminal velocity as a function of particle diameter for a constant pressure drop (white dashed line in d) compared to the effect of flow rate reduction, dotted line, and the effect of dragging and driving force balance, dashed line.
Theoretical framework. (a) Schematics of microfluidic inertial particle focusing (left, made by open-
