Spatiotemporal resonances in a microfluidic system

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Nov;72(5 Pt 2):056312. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.056312. Epub 2005 Nov 9.

Abstract

We report on the experimental observation of a spatiotemporal resonance phenomenon, in which a temporal excitation locks with a spatial pattern in an open flow system. The observation is made in a microfluidic system. We obtain the expected regimes--mixing and resonant patterns--in qualitative agreement with the theory. As an application, we realized a dual system particle extraction-micromixer.