DFG Priority Program SPP 1164

Nano- & Microfluidics:

Bridging the Gap between
Molecular Motion and Continuum Flow

Small-scale particle advection, manipulation and mixing: beyond the hydrodynamic scales

Project Leader: Dr. Arthur Straube
Universität Potsdam
Professur für Statistische Physik und Chaostheorie
Potsdam

Summary of the project


Other people working on the project


Collaboration within microfluidic topics (outside of SPP 1164):
Dr. Ard A. Louis (University of Oxford, UK)
Dr. Sergey V. Shklyaev (Perm State University, Russia)

Homepage of the group

Expertise of the group

  • Multiphase flows: single particle and collective particle effects
  • Reaction-advection-diffusion systems, mixing and pattern formation
  • Dynamical systems, anomalous transport, fractal spectra
  • Continuum and mesoscopic modelling

Publications of the group connected with nano- or microfluidics


  1. A.V. Straube, D.V. Lyubimov, S.V. Shklyaev, Averaged dynamics of two-phase media in a vibration field, Phys. Fluids 18, 053303 (2006).
  2. D.V. Lyubimov, T.P. Lyubimova, A.V. Straube, Accumulation of solid particles in convective flows, Microgravity Science and Technology Journal 16, 210 (2005).
  3. D.V. Lyubimov, A.V. Straube, T.P. Lyubimova, Capture of particles of dust by convective flow, Phys. Fluids 17, 063302 (2005).
  4. A.V. Straube, M. Abel, A. Pikovsky, Temporal chaos versus spatial mixing in reaction-advection-diffusion systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 174501 (2004).