The Clément Ader Institute is a research laboratory of the University of Toulouse gathering 100 faculty members, 90 PhD students and 20 technical staff working in the fields of structures, systems and mechanical processes.

In this lab, the Microfluidics group has been highly involved in microfluidics for more than 15 years. This group has developed a high-level, internationally recognized, expertise in modelling, simulation, and experimental analysis of gas flows and liquid flows in microsystems, from a fundamental as well as from an applied point of view.

The main research activities are:

• Dynamics of confined flows: velocity slip and temperature jump at the wall
• Thermally driven flows: thermal transpiration
• Micro-actuators for flow control
• Molecular Tagging Velocimetry in confined flows

• Micro-Focalisation of Finite Sized Particles

• Bubble Image Velocimetry for the Characterization of Medical Micro Pumps