High performance simulations of electrokinetic flow and transport in microfluidic chips

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 198, Issue 30-32, 2009, Pages 2360-2367

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

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Additive Schwarz methods; Electrokinetic flow; Mass transport; Microfluidics chips; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ADDITIVE SCHWARZ METHOD; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES; ELECTROKINETIC FLOWS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE SIMULATION; MICROFLUIDICS CHIPS; PARALLEL EFFICIENCY; PYTHON PROGRAMMING;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 65449145485     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.02.028     Document Type: Article

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