Theory of the flow-induced deformation of shallow compliant microchannels with thick walls
Theory of the flow-induced deformation of shallow compliant microchannels with thick walls
Long, shallow microchannels embedded in thick soft materials are widely used in microfluidic devices for lab-on-a-chip applications. However, the bulging effect caused by fluid--structure interactions between the internal viscous flow and the soft walls has not been completely understood. Previous models either contain a fitting parameter or are specialized to …