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Abstract
Investigating and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have shown to be an invaluable tool for early cancer detection and diagnosis. Microfluidic devices, which are inexpensive and simple to use, have recently gained a lot of attention for the enumeration and separation of CTCs. In this research, a novel sheathless double-loop spiral-based lab-on-a-chip is proposed dependent upon the functionality of inertial focusing for separating multiple CTCs such as MCF-7 (breast cancer CTCs) and A549 (lung cancer CTCs) distinctly from the normal cells like WBCs (white blood cells) and RBCs (red blood cells). The chip is designed and examined in numerical simulation using COMSOL Multiphysics 5.4 tool at various average flow velocities and Reynolds numbers (Re). In this study, the separation purities and recoveries of \(\sim \) 100% is gained by the chip at the Re values ranges from 71.75 \({\text{to}}\) 76.87 (flowrate of 87.8\(-\)94.1 ml/h), which indicates the high capability of separating multiple CTCs distinctly with high throughput.
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GENERAL OBJECTIVES: Computational Particle Mechanics (CPM) is a quarterly journal with the goal of publishing full-length original articles addressing the modeling and simulation of systems involving particles and particle methods. The goal is to enhance communication among researchers in the applied sciences who use "particles'''' in one form or another in their research.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Particle-based materials and numerical methods have become wide-spread in the natural and applied sciences, engineering, biology. The term "particle methods/mechanics'''' has now come to imply several different things to researchers in the 21st century, including:
(a) Particles as a physical unit in granular media, particulate flows, plasmas, swarms, etc.,
(b) Particles representing material phases in continua at the meso-, micro-and nano-scale and
(c) Particles as a discretization unit in continua and discontinua in numerical methods such as
Discrete Element Methods (DEM), Particle Finite Element Methods (PFEM), Molecular Dynamics (MD), and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), to name a few.