Interface Capturing in Dual-Flow Microfluidics

Autor:	J. Gargiuli, Pankaj Vadgama, Dimitris Drikakis, Evgeniy Shapiro
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Fabrication Computer science Microfluidics Nanotechnology General Chemistry Mechanics Condensed Matter Physics Interface position Computational Mathematics Discontinuity (geotechnical engineering) Compressibility General Materials Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering Microfabrication
Zdroj:	Scopus-Elsevier
ISSN:	1546-1963 1546-1955
DOI:	10.1166/jctn.2007.2371
Popis:	Dual-fluid flows are utilised extensively in microfluidics applications. A prob- lem of particular interest is the precise positioning of the contact discontinuity between the carrier fluids. The paper presents a computational study of the interface positioning in xylene/water flows used in polymer membrane fabrication in microfluidics. Both ar- tificial compressibility, high-resolution characteristics-based and pressure-correction-based schemes have been employed. The former numerically captures the interface position, whereas the latter is used in conjunction with a volume-of-fluid interface tracking scheme. The high-resolution scheme results in less diusive contact discontinuity and the predicted interface position compares favourably with analytic results.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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