Particle motion in microfluidics simulated using a Femlab implementation of the level set method

2005/05/18 by Martin Heller, Heller, Martin, Henrik Bruus +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #physics.comp-ph #physics.flu-dyn

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0505126

7 pages, 2 postscript figures

arxiv created 2005/05/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We implement the level set method for numerical simulation of the motion of a suspended particle convected by the fluid flow in a microchannel. The method automatically cope with the interactions between the particle and the channel walls. We apply the method in a study of particles moving in a channel with obstacles of different shapes. The generality of the method also makes it applicable for simulations of motion of particles under influence of external forces.

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