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Selected Works of Shelly Gulati
Article
Elastic secondary flows of semidilute DNA solutions in abrupt 90° micro-bends
Physical Review E
  • Shelly Gulati, University of California, Berkeley
  • Dorian Liepmann, University of California, Berkeley
  • Susan J. Muller, University of California, Berkeley
Department
Bioengineering
Document Type
Article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.036314
Publication Date
9-1-2008
Disciplines
Abstract

Secondary flows that are absent in Newtonian flows are found for semidilute λ-DNA solutions in abrupt planar 90° microbends at modest levels of elasticity. Flow visualization and microparticle image velocimetry experiments show that a vortex, which is present in the inner, upstream corner of the bend, grows with increasing Reynolds and Weissenberg number (9.9×10−7−2,0.41

Citation Information
Shelly Gulati, Dorian Liepmann and Susan J. Muller. "Elastic secondary flows of semidilute DNA solutions in abrupt 90° micro-bends" Physical Review E Vol. 78 Iss. 1 (2008) p. 36314 ISSN: 2470-0045
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/shelly-gulati/58/