Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, microscale applied mechanics are gaining increasing interest, due to important advances in biomechanics, pharmaceutics, and biology, amongst many others. This is also noticed in the growing amount of research articles and specific congresses dedicated solely to this topic. Within the broad field of micromachines, in microfluidic applications the use of micromixing machines is of outstanding importance. These are reduced-scale low-cost machines with high mixing performance, low fluid consumption and portables. This makes micromixing devices a tool of high potential in many fields of science, such as biology and biomedicine, chemistry, materials and processing, and engineering and technology, amongst others.

To promote advances and gather researchers from this exciting topic, this Special Issue will focus on the following leading-edge aspects in the field of micromixing machines:

• Basics and Fundamentals. Including theoretical approaches.
• Computational modelling: Finite Element (FEM), Finite Volume (FVM), Finite Difference Methods (FDM), etc. Including Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI).
• Experimental studies and characterisation.
• Real-life case studies and applications.
• Design of devices, for which uncertainty quantification, optimization and machine learning techniques may be necessary.
• Manufacture and fabrication, with techniques such as deposition, lithography, patterning, surface micromachining, laser fabrication, fabrication, 3D printing etc., and with materials such as silicon, carbon, glasses, polymers (plastics), metals, ceramics, composites, liquid crystals, semiconductors, superconducting, magnetic materials, etc.

The aforementioned aspects can be investigated in either active or passive devices, either molecular or thermal mixing, and for application in any field. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their latest studies in this Special Issue on, but not limited to, any of the topics above mentioned.

Prof. Dr. Joaquin Ortega-Casanova
Dr. Francisco-J. Granados-Ortiz
Guest Editors

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• Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Computational Mechanics/Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• Micro Total Analysis Systems (Micro-TAS)
• Micromixing Experiments
• Optimisation
• Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
• Split and Recombine (SAR)
• Machine Learning
• Uncertainty Quantification