Numerical investigation of the effect of spiral curvature on the flow field in a spiral channel viscous micropump

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 537-546

  Al Halhouli, A T ^a   Al Salaymeh, A ^b   Kilani, M I ^b   Buttgenbach S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

CFD simulation; MEMS; Spiral channel; Viscous micropumps

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW RATE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LUBRICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOUS FLOW;

FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; LINEAR LUBRICATION MODEL; VISCOUS MICROPUMP;

PUMPS;

EID: 34547899922     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-006-0144-1     Document Type: Article

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