Publications by Morteza Ghorbani

On cavitation inception and cavitating flow patterns in a multi-orifice microfluidic device with a functional surface

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Merve Zuvin, Morteza Ghorbani

During the last decade, hydrodynamic cavitation has been implemented in various applications such as energy harvesting and biomedical applications. Facile hydrodynamic cavitation methods are required for fulfilling the requirements in these applications. I ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Design and fabrication of a vigorous "cavitation-on-a-chip" device with a multiple microchannel configuration

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Merve Zuvin, Morteza Ghorbani, Mohammad Jafarpour, Farzad Rokhsar Talabazar

Hydrodynamic cavitation is one of the major phase change phenomena and occurs with a sudden decrease in the local static pressure within a fluid. With the emergence of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), high-speed microfluidic devices have attracted co ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Engineered Lateral Roughness Element Implementation and Working Fluid Alteration to Intensify Hydrodynamic Cavitating Flows on a Chip for Energy Harvesting

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Morteza Ghorbani

Hydrodynamic cavitation is considered an effective tool to be used in different applications, such as surface cleaning, ones in the food industry, energy harvesting, water treatment, biomedical applications, and heat transfer enhancement. Thus, both charac ...

2019

On "Cavitation on Chip" in Microfluidic Devices With Surface and Sidewall Roughness Elements

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Morteza Ghorbani, Ahmad Reza Motezakker

In this paper, cavitating flows are characterized in 29 microfluidic devices in order to achieve a comprehensive perspective regarding flow patterns in microscale, which is crucial in the applications, such as energy harvesting and biomedical treatment. Wh ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Intensifying cavitating flows in microfluidic devices with poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) microbubbles

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Morteza Ghorbani

Cavitation and the energy associated with the collapse of resulting cavitation bubbles constitute an important research subject. The collapse of the hydrodynamic cavitation bubbles at the outlet of the flow elements leads to a high energy release and gener ...

2018

Hydrodynamic cavitation in microfluidic devices with roughened surfaces

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Morteza Ghorbani

2018

Energy Harvesting in Microscale with Cavitating Flows

Yusuf Leblebici, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Morteza Ghorbani, Ahmad Reza Motezakker, Ali Mohammadi

Energy harvesting from thermal energy has been widely exploited to achieve energy savings and clean technologies. In this research, a new cost-effective and environment-friendly solution is proposed for the growing individual energy needs thanks to the ene ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Increasing the stability of nanofluids with cavitating flows in micro orifices

Yusuf Leblebici, Morteza Ghorbani

One of the most critical challenges for nanofluids in practical applications is related to their stability and reusability since a gradual agglomeration of nanoparticles in nanofluids occurs with time and is accelerated by heating. In this study, we propos ...

Amer Inst Physics2016