Development of microscale visualization techniques

Abstract

A review on advanced flow visualization techniques is presented particularly for applications to microscale heat and mass transport measurements. Challenges, development and applications of microscale visualization techniques are discussed for the study of heating/evaporating thin films, gas bubble advancement in a microchannel, thermophoretic behavior near the solid surface, and microheater fabrications, mainly conducted at the Microscale Fluidics and Heat Transport Laboratory of Texas A&M University.