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使用轴向控制力的惯性微流体的闭环控制

Feedback control of inertial microfluidics using axial control forces

Christopher Prohm, Holger Stark

摘要:

惯性微流体是一种很有前途的工具,许多实验室上的芯片应用。雷诺数大于1的通道流中的颗粒在方形和矩形通道截面中经历横向流线迁移到一组离散的平衡位置。这种效应已被广泛用于颗粒分选和颗粒特性分析。使用格子玻尔兹曼方法,我们确定在正方形和矩形截面的平衡位置和分类不同的雷诺数,颗粒尺寸和通道纵横比的稳定性类型。因此,我们的研究结果有助于设计用于颗粒分选的微流体通道。此外,我们演示了如何轴向控制力,这减慢了粒子,移动稳定的平衡位置向通道中心。最后,粒子然后停留在中心线上的力超过阈值。这种效果是敏感的颗粒尺寸和通道雷诺数,因此建议一种有效的方法,颗粒分离。结合滞后反馈方案,我们甚至可以增加颗粒吞吐量。

英文摘要:

Inertial microfluidics is a promising tool for many lab-on-a-chip applications. Particles in channel flows with Reynolds numbers above one undergo cross-streamline migration to a discrete set of equilibrium positions in square and rectangular channel cross sections. This effect has been used extensively for particle sorting and the analysis of particle properties. Using the lattice Boltzmann method, we determine equilibrium positions in square and rectangular cross sections and classify their types of stability for different Reynolds numbers, particle sizes, and channel aspect ratios. Our findings thereby help to design microfluidic channels for particle sorting. Furthermore, we demonstrate how an axial control force, which slows down the particles, shifts the stable equilibrium position towards the channel center. Ultimately, the particles then stay on the centerline for forces exceeding a threshold value. This effect is sensitive to particle size and channel Reynolds number and therefore suggests an efficient method for particle separation. In combination with a hysteretic feedback scheme, we can even increase particle throughput.

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