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A STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL GUI PROGRAM FOR MICROFLUIDIC-NETWORK DESIGN  

Park, I.H. (동아대학교 대학원 기계공학과)
Kang, S. (동아대학교 기계공학과)
Suh, Y.K. (동아대학교 기계공학과)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.14, no.4, 2009 , pp. 86-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nowadays, the development of microfluidic chip [i.e. biochip, micro-total analysis system ($\mu$-TAS) and LOC (lab-on-a-chip)] becomes more active, and the microchannels to deliver fluid by pressure or electroosmotic forces tend to be more complex like electronic circuits or networks. For a simple network of channels, we may calculate the pressure and the flow rate easily by using suitable formula. However, for complex network it is not handy to obtain such information with that simple way. For this reason, Graphic User Interface (GUI) program which can rapidly give required information should be necessary for microchip designers. In this paper, we present a GUI program developed in our laboratory and the simple theoretical formula used in the program. We applied our program to simple case and could get results compared well with other numerical results. Further, we applied our program to several complex cases and obtained reasonable results.
Keywords
Microfluidic network; GUI program; Electroosmotic flow;
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