Incompressible SPH Modeling of Rotary Micropump Mixers

Abstract

In the present study, for the first time, the flow and mass transfer in the rotary micropump-micromixers were investigated by the SPH method. In fact, the present work shows the ability of the SPH method to model the mixing process due to pumping action. The incompressible SPH method applied for modeling is improved by the kernel gradient corrective tensor, a particle shifting algorithm, and an improved periodic boundary condition. SPH is a proper method for modeling the mixing process because there is no modeling for the convective terms and so, the false diffusion is not observed in the SPH modeling. In the present study, first, a viscous micropump comprising a microchannel in which a circular cylinder rotates with special eccentricity is modeled and validated. Then, the geometry is manipulated in order to achieve a desirable micromixer.