Mittal R., Seshadri V., Sarma S., Udaykumar H.S.
The George Washington University, US
Keywords: Cartesian grid methods, computational fluid dynamics fluidic micro-handling, microassembly, microflows
This paper describes the application of a new and unconventional numerical method for computational modeling of fluidic micro-handling processes. The key requirement for modeling such processes is the ability to simulate flows with large number of complex shaped moving objects. Conventional body-conformal computational fluid dynamic (CFD) methods are not well suited for simulating such flows and here we have employed a new Cartesian Grid Method (CGM) which has the unique ability of simulating these complex flow on stationary Cartesian grids. The method has been used to simulate a generic fluidic assembly process and is shown to predict some interesting features of this process.
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 1, Technical Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems
Published: April 22, 2002
Pages: 388 - 391
Industry sector: Sensors, MEMS, Electronics
Topic: Modeling & Simulation of Microsystems
ISBN: 0-9708275-7-1