Fig. 1 Schematic of a microfluidic thermal cycler unit with PCM assisted annealing More

Fig. 2 Computational domain and boundary conditions for the microfluidic thermal cycler simulation More

Fig. 3 Comparison of computed temperature rise in microchannel with experiment [ 30 ] for Re = 61 (mass flux 219 kg/m 2 s) and Re = 91 (mass flux 342 kg/m 2 s) More

Fig. 4 Temperature contours for rectangular microchannel flow (validation case [ 30 ] for Re = 61 and Re = 91) More

Fig. 5 Temperature contour of the thermocycler for Re = 0.5 More

Fig. 6 Axial variation of temperature in the entire thermocycler flow path More

Fig. 7 Liquid fraction contour of PCM surrounding the annealing section for Re = 0.5 More

Fig. 8 The melt front advancement with time for a fixed flowrate Re = 0.5 More

Fig. 9 The variation of overall liquid fraction in PCM storage with respect to time for various Re More

Fig. 10 The variation of heat flux and surface average Nusselt number with flowrate More

Fig. 11 The variation of Stefan number with flowrate More

Fig. 12 The temporal development of temperature of a sample fluid particle in thermocycler path (Re = 0.1) More

Fig. 13 Axial temperature in the first annealing section of the thermocycler unit More

Fig. 14 A comparison of time required to achieve isothermal conditions in the annealing section and extent of isothermal region More

Fig. 15 Liquid fraction of PCM and temperature variation in the annealing section for various PCM encapsulation sizes More

Fig. 16 A comparison of time required to achieve isothermal conditions in the annealing section and extent of isothermal region for Re = 0.1 for various width of the PCM encapsulation More

Fig. 17 A comparison of the heat transfer performance in the PCM encapsulated annealing section for Re = 0.1 for various encapsulation sizes More