THEORETICAL MICROFLUIDICS OMSP PAPER (Oxford Master Series in Physics)

I'm a Ph.D. student working in a microfluidics laboratory, and my research group and I have been making our way through this book in our group meetings and studying different chapters. It's a good book, but we are often stumped on some of the approaches taken in working out various derivations, when more logical approaches seem apparent to us. I also find myself wishing that the chapters would go a little more in depth on some of the applications (there is some but I would like more), but I guess they're taking the title "Theoretical" seriously. Still, overall it's a good treatment of the subject in a field where there aren't a lot of in-depth theoretical books on the background and underlying physics of the subject.Another note: the mathematical notations follow European convention, which can on occasion be confusing for an American when it comes to their calculus-based equations. It's not too hard to figure out though.

I work in experimental microfluidics and this book has helped bring me up to speed on the theoretical fundamentals of electrokinetics and magnetohydrodynamics. However, if you're looking for a primer on microfluidics and you're not that into math, this book probably isn't for you.

Excellent quality.

In depth treatment of the modern subject, both on the theoretical and practical aspects.

The book provides an excellent mathematical explanation of fluid behaviour in microfluidics. It is maths-heavy: in order to benefit fully from this text, the reader should be very comfortable with vector calculus, PDEs, and basic fluid mechanics. My only complaint is that, at certain points, it is difficult to obtain a physical intuition of what is going on.My favourite feature of this book is the problem set at the end of each chapter. Each problem comes with a full, worked out solution and accompanying explanation. This is very helpful in developing a deeper understanding of the topic, and really sets this book apart from most other textbooks I have seen.

I bought this book for my bachelor thesis on acoustofluidics and must say it did not let me down. The presentation of the field is very thorough and clear, there are no hand-waving arguments and you feel that the author really understands his stuff. It is of course not as thorough as  Fluid Mechanics (Course of Theoretical Physics)  by Landau and Lifshitz, but much easier to understand.I would definitely recommend this book for advanced undergraduates or graduates about to learn microfluidics, but make sure you have a good understanding of partial differential equations, vector analysis and basic mechanics.

The book is useful to have a general overview of the microfluidics theoretical background. Unfortunately, there are no informations about non-Newtonian fluids behavior in microfluidics. I think it's a serious lack because non-Newtonian fluids such as emulsions, suspensions etc., are of considerable importance, and their micro-scale flow behavior is a topic of growing interest.