Course

Module 1

Physics of miniaturisation–scaling laws.
Micro scale Energy Transport in Solids : Microstructure of solids, crystal vibrations and phonons, photon interactions, particle transport theories, non-equilibrium energy transfer.
Molecular Forces and Phase Change in Thin Liquid Films : Thermodynamics of thin films, interfacial meniscus properties, interfacial mass flux.
Heat Transfer and Pressure Drops in Micro channels: Single phase and two phase flow, flow boiling, dryout, bubble behaviour, flow pattern.

Module 2

Microfluidics : Introduction, continuum assumption, pressure driven microflows, boundary condition in fluid mechanics, surface tension driven flows, Electro kinetic Flows.
Nanofluidics : Simple Fluids in Nanochannels, Water in nanochannels, nanofluidic energy conversion.

Module 3

Micro Heat Pipes : Fundamental operating principles, steady state and transient modeling and construction techniques.
Microscale Thermal Sensors and Actuators: MEMS technology, flow sensors, infrared radiation detectors, thermal conductivity sensor, thermal expansion actuators and micro-steam engine. Nano fluids : Preparation of nano-fluids, sputtering, characterization of nano-fluids, thermal properties of nano-fluids, single phase convective and boiling heat transfer processes.
Drug delivery, labon chip devices, Bio MEMS.

• CO1 : To familiarize with the scaling of forces with systemsize and the associated changes in the physical behavior of micro/nano scale systems.
• CO2 : To gain a fundamental understanding about the thermal transport in micro/nano scale systems.
• CO3 : To familiarize with methods used for analyzing fluid transport in micro/nano scale systems.
• CO4 : To identify, formulate, and solve interdisciplinary problems relevant for micro and nano scale thermal and fluid systems.

• Nam-Trung Nguyen, Steven T. Wereley, Seyed Ali Mousavi Shaegh, Fundamentals and Applications of Micro fluidics, 3rd Ed., Artech House,2019.
• Tien, C. L ., Majumdar, A. and Gerner, F. M., Microscale Energy Transport, Taylor & Francis,2003.
• Karniadakis, G., Beskok, A., and Aluru, N., Microflows and Nano flows : Fundamentals and Simulation, Springer, 2005.
• C B Sobhan,GP Peterson, Microscale and Nanoscale HeatTransfer-Fundamentals and Engineering Applications, Taylor and Francis/CRC, 2008.
• Satish,K., Srinivas,G.,Dongqing,L.,Stephane,C., and Michael R. K., Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels, First Edition, Elsevier, 2005.
• Kirby,  B.J., Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid    Mechanics : Transport in Micro fluidic Devices, Cambridge University Press,2010