High performance simulations of electrokinetic flow and transport in microfluidic chips

Pablo A. Kler; Ezequiel J. López; Lisandro D. Dalcín; Fabio A. Guarnieri; Mario A. Storti

doi:10.1016/j.cma.2009.02.028

High performance simulations of electrokinetic flow and transport in microfluidic chips

Pablo A. Kler, Ezequiel J. López, Lisandro D. Dalcín^*, Fabio A. Guarnieri, Mario A. Storti

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Abstract

This article discusses high performance numerical simulations of electrokinetic flow and transport phenomena in microfluidic chips. Modeling grounds on conservation equations of mass, momentum and electric charge in the framework of continuum mechanics. Two examples of interest in microfluidics are considered as study cases. Three dimension effects and whole chip geometries are taking into account. All numerical simulations presented are performed with PETSc-FEM within a Python programming environment employing parallel computing. Computation time and parallel efficiency are measured in order to study additive Schwarz method performance as domain decomposition technique in solving common ill-conditioned microfluidics problems.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2360-2367
Number of pages	8
Journal	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Volume	198
Issue number	30-32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2009.02.028
State	Published - Jun 1 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Additive Schwarz methods
Electrokinetic flow
Mass transport
Microfluidics chips
Parallel computing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computational Mechanics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
General Physics and Astronomy
Computer Science Applications

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