DFG Priority Program SPP 1164

Nano- & Microfluidics:

Bridging the Gap between
Molecular Motion and Continuum Flow

Surface acoustic wave driven micro-flows: Flow control and transport of finite size particles


Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Peter Hänggi
Universität Augsburg
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I
Augsburg
together with: Prof. Dr. Achim Wixforth
Universität Augsburg
Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik I
Augsburg

Summary of the project


Other people working on the project


Kaspar Sakmann (PhD student)

Dr. Michael Schindler (Post-Doc)
http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/~schindmi/

Dr. Marcin Kostur (Post-Doc)

Prof. Dr. Peter Talkner:
http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo1/Talkner/index.html

Homepage of the group


See the part of Peter Hänggi's homepage on microfluidics:

Expertise of the group

  • Fluctuation phenomena and Brownian motion in general, with applications to particle transport in fluids
  • Finite-Element calculation of free-surface microflows
  • Particle accumulation at boundaries (free or solid)

Publications of the group connected with nano- or microfluidics


  1. Michael Schindler, Peter Talkner, Marcin Kostur, Peter Hanggi
    Accumulating Particles at the Boundaries of a Laminar Flow
    arXiv:cond-mat/0608019
  2. M. Schindler, P. Talkner, and P. Hänggi
    Computing stationary free-surface shapes in microfluidics
    arXiv:physics/0511217
  3. M. Schindler
    Free-Surface Microflows and Particle Transport
    PhD thesis (Universität Augsburg, 2006)
  4. M. Kostur, M. Schindler, P. Talkner, and P. Hänggi
    Chiral separation in microflows
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014502 (2006), [arXiv:cond-mat/0506084]
  5. Z. Guttenberg, A. Rathgeber, S. Keller, J. O. Rädler, A. Wixforth, M. Kostur, M. Schindler, and P. Talkner
    Flow profiling of a surface-acoustic-wave nanopump
    Phys. Rev. E 70, 056311 (2004)
  6. C. Kettner, P. Reimann, P. Hänggi, and F. Müller
    Drift Ratchet
    Phys. Rev. E 61, 312?323 (2000)
  7. C. Kettner, P. Hänggi, and F. Müller
    Realisierung von rauschinduziertem Transport mit periodischem Antrieb
    in: Technische Anwendungen von Erkenntnissen der Nichtlinearen Dynamik,
    VDI-Technologiezentrum Physikalische Technologien, Düsseldorf (1999)