Microfluidics: Slug Flow Project - Joseph Martel
Hometown: Unionville, Connecticut
Class Year: 2008
Major: Mechanical Engineering Minor: Psychology
Research Advisor: Professor Bruno (Mechanical Engineering)
Project Description:
There were two chapters to my summer research project. The first included modifying a setup and attempting to reveal the internal motion within slugs of fluid moving through a microchannel using PIV technology. This project is now in a state of readiness for more fine tuning and trouble shooting with the software being used. The second project was doing background research for my senior project which is to create a setup to measure shear stress in a microfluidic channel using liquid crystals. Over the next two terms I hope to create and use a new experimental apparatus and collect data using this liquid crystal technique for one and two phase flow through microchannels.