TY - GEN
T1 - Lattice Boltzmann simulation of 2D AC electrothermal pump
AU - Ren, Qinlong
AU - Chan, Cho Lik
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The electrothermal flow in the microfluidics system is a fast developing technology because of the technology advancement in Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The fluid flow is driven by the electrothermal force generated by the AC electrical field and non-uniform temperature distribution inside the system. In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), a particle-based approach, will be used to simulate the 2D electrothermal pump. As an alternative numerical method for fluid dynamics, LBM has lots of advantages compared with traditional CFD methods especially for the computation in micro-scale with complex boundary conditions1. It will be shown that LBM is an effective approach to simulate 2D electrothermal pump.
AB - The electrothermal flow in the microfluidics system is a fast developing technology because of the technology advancement in Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The fluid flow is driven by the electrothermal force generated by the AC electrical field and non-uniform temperature distribution inside the system. In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), a particle-based approach, will be used to simulate the 2D electrothermal pump. As an alternative numerical method for fluid dynamics, LBM has lots of advantages compared with traditional CFD methods especially for the computation in micro-scale with complex boundary conditions1. It will be shown that LBM is an effective approach to simulate 2D electrothermal pump.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84907020037
SN - 9781624102813
T3 - AIAA AVIATION 2014 -11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference
BT - AIAA AVIATION 2014 -11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.
T2 - AIAA AVIATION 2014 -11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference 2014
Y2 - 16 June 2014 through 20 June 2014
ER -