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低Reynolds-number流动通过具有超低高宽比aspect ratios的可变形浅微通道的实验和理论研究

Experimental and theoretical investigation of a low-Reynolds-number flow through deformable shallow microchannels with ultra-low height-to-width aspect ratios

Aryan Mehboudi, Junghoon Yeom

摘要:

在芯片实验室和MEMS社区中广泛使用的可变形微流体的新兴领域提供了一个研究相对未被研究的物理学的机会。这项工作的主要目的是提供一个更深入的了解底层的耦合流固相互作用的低雷诺数的流体流动通过一个浅的可变形的微通道具有超低的高宽比。所制造的高度为几微米、宽度为几毫米的可变形微通道,其纵横比以前的报道小大约两个数量级,使我们能够研究从小的壁偏转(其中可变形微通道类似于其相应的刚性微通道)到比原始高度大得多的壁偏转的各种不同状态的流体流动特性,在那里出现了与身高无关的特征行为。微通道的几何形状,膜的性能,和跨通道的压力差的影响是由一个集总变量称为灵活性参数。在跨不同通道的相同压降下,它们的几何形状的任何差异都反映在通道的柔性参数中,这可能导致装置在流体-固体特性的不同状态下操作。另一方面,对于具有给定膜特性和通道几何形状的制造的微通道,施加的压差的足够大的变化可以将流动结构行为从一个特征状态改变到另一个特征状态。通过适当引入柔度参数和无量纲体积流量,得到了流体流过任意长而浅的可变形微通道的主曲线。本文还提出了一个判断是否应考虑流固耦合的准则。

英文摘要:

The emerging field of deformable microfluidics widely employed in the Lab-on-a-Chip and MEMS communities offers an opportunity to study a relatively under-examined physics. The main objective of this work is to provide a deeper insight into the underlying coupled fluid-solid interactions of a low-Reynolds-number fluid flow through a shallow deformable microchannel with ultra-low height-to-width ratios. The fabricated deformable microchannels of several microns in height and few millimeters in width, whose aspect ratio is about two orders of magnitude smaller than that of the previous reports, allow us to investigate the fluid flow characteristics spanning a variety of distinct regimes from small wall deflections, where the deformable microchannel resembles its corresponding rigid one, to wall deflections much larger than the original height, where the height-independent characteristic behavior emerges. The effects of the microchannel geometry, membrane properties, and pressure difference across the channel are represented by a lumped variable called flexibility parameter. Under the same pressure drop across different channels, any difference in their geometries is reflected into the flexibility parameter of the channels, which can potentially cause the devices to operate under distinct regimes of the fluid-solid characteristics. For a fabricated microchannel with given membrane properties and channel geometry, on the other hand, a sufficiently large change in the applied pressure difference can alter the flow-structure behavior from one characteristic regime to another. By appropriately introducing the flexibility parameter and the dimensionless volumetric flow rate, a master curve is found for the fluid flow through any long and shallow deformable microchannel. A criterion is also suggested for determining whether the coupled or decoupled fluid-solid mechanics should be considered.

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