Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Shivaun D Archer, Cornell University

happens to micro-vessels when blocked and how thesurrounding vessels compensate and redirect flow. The use of a PDMS chip allows forreproducible and easily visualized results without the need for an animal model. Students learnmicrofluidics, image acquisition and analysis, microfabrication, and MATLAB® simulations aswell as gain an appreciation of the fluid dynamics of microvascular blood flow in health anddisease.IntroductionMicrofluidic devices have been applied to many areas of cutting-edge research, they allow forhigh throughput while using minimal supplies, more control over the environment, potential forautomation, and ability to test different parameters easily [1]. Students typically learn fluiddynamics through lectures based in theory