Paper presented to the 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Florida, 14-16 July 2014.
An exciting alternative of the conventional drug delivery
systems has been proposed in recent times named as
transdermal powdered drug delivery. The idea is to deliver drug
(in powdered from) into the human skin without using any
external needle. Among different proposed systems the
contoured shock tube (CST) system stands out. The
performance of CST device is widely analyzed by different
researchers. However, there is still room for improvement of
it’s performance. This study aims at improving the performance
of CST device by adjusting it’s geometry as well as operating
condition. A significant improvement in the performance is
reported after proper adjustment of different features of the
device.
