Enhancing active electro-kinetic micro-mixer efficiency by introducing vertical electrodes and modifying chamber aspect ratio

KM Bagherabadi, M Sani, MS Saidi - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2019 - Elsevier
Micro-mixers are considered as vital components of Micro Total Analysis systems (μTAS).
Major objective in the design of micro-mixers is achieving high mixing quality in short mixing …

Consistent inlet and outlet boundary conditions for particle methods

F Hu, Z Wang, T Tamai… - International Journal for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, simple and consistent open boundary conditions are presented for the
numerical simulation of viscous incompressible laminar flows. The present approach is …

Numerical simulation of electro-deposition process influenced by force convection and migration of ions

M Zahraei, MS Saidi, M Sani - Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Electro-deposition process is one of the main steps in the LIGA procedure to fabricate
microstructures. In this paper, one-dimensional modeling of Nickel electro-deposition …

Implementation of boundary conditions in pressure-based finite volume methods on unstructured grids

I Sezai - Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, the implementation of boundary conditions for the Navier–Stokes and the
energy equations, including the pressure and pressure correction equations, are presented …

Implementation of boundary conditions and global mass conservation in pressure-based finite volume method on unstructured grids for fluid flow and heat transfer …

SC Xue, GW Barton - International journal of heat and mass transfer, 2012 - Elsevier
Proper boundary condition implementation can be critical for efficient, accurate numerical
simulations when a pressure-based finite volume methodology is used to solve fluid flow …

Continuous size-based focusing and bifurcating microparticle streams using a negative dielectrophoretic system

A Hemmatifar, MS Saidi, A Sadeghi, M Sani - Microfluidics and …, 2013 - Springer
Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is an electrokinetic phenomenon which is used for manipulating
micro-and nanoparticles in micron-sized devices with high sensitivity. In recent years …

Three-dimensional simulation of urine concentrating mechanism in a functional unit of rat outer medulla. I. Model structure and base case results

S Sohrabi, MS Saidi, M Saadatmand… - Mathematical …, 2014 - Elsevier
The urine formation and excretion system have long been of interest for mathematicians and
physiologists to elucidate the obscurities within the process happens in renal tissue. In this …

Efficient and non-reflecting far-field boundary conditions for incompressible flow calculations

MY Hashemi, K Zamzamian - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2014 - Elsevier
Traditionally, the artificial compressibility (AC) method of Chorin is used for simulation of low-
speed and incompressible flows. In this method, the difficulty of continuity and momentum …

Incompressible fluid flow simulations with flow rate as the sole information at synthetic inflow and outflow boundaries

SC Xue, GW Barton - … Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In numerically simulating heat and mass transport processes in an unconfined domain
involving synthetic open (inflow and/or outflow) boundaries, how to properly specify flow …

Numerical Analysis of Some Active and Passive Electro-Kinetic Micro-Mixers by Applying Poisson-Nernst-Planck and Navier–Stokes (PNP-NSE) Equations

K Maleki Bagherabadi, M Sani… - Modares Mechanical …, 2019 - mbd.modares.ac.ir
Micro-mixers are vital components of “Lab-on-a-Chip” devices. Their main functionality is the
mixing of two streams with desired quality and at minimum mixing time. In this work …