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Analytic modelling of passive microfluidic mixers

Bonament, Alexi
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Prel, Alexis
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Sallese, Jean-Michel  
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January 1, 2022
Mathematical Biosciences And Engineering

This paper deals with a new analytical model for microfluidic passive mixers. Two common approaches already exist for such a purpose. On the one hand, the resolution of the advection-diffusion-reaction equation (ADRE) is the first one and the closest to physics. However, ADRE is a partial differential equation that requires finite element simulations. On the other hand, analytical models based on the analogy between microfluidics and electronics have already been established. However, they rely on the assumption of homogeneous fluids, which means that the mixer is supposed to be long enough to obtain a perfect mixture at the output. In this paper, we derive an analytical model from the ADRE under several assumptions. Then we integrate these equations within the electronic-equivalent models. The resulting models computed the relationship between pressure and flow rate in the microfluidic circuit but also takes the concentration gradients that can appear in the direction perpendicular to the channel into account. The model is compared with the finite element simulation performed with COMSOL Multiphysics in several study cases. We estimate that the global error introduced by our model compared to the finite element simulation is less than 5% in every use case. In counterparts, the cost in terms of computational resources is drastically reduced. The analytical model can be implemented in a large range of modelling and simulation languages, including SPICE and hardware description language such as Verilog-AMS. This feature is very interesting in the context of the in silico prototyping of large-scale microfluidic devices or multi-physics devices involving microfluidic circuits, e.g. lab-on-chips.

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DOI
10.3934/mbe.2022179
Web of Science ID

WOS:000755773600006

Author(s)
Bonament, Alexi
Prel, Alexis
Sallese, Jean-Michel  
Lallement, Christophe
Madec, Morgan
Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS

Published in
Mathematical Biosciences And Engineering
Volume

19

Issue

4

Start page

3892

End page

3908

Subjects

Mathematical & Computational Biology

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microfluidics

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passive mixer

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modelling

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analytic models

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hardware description languages

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comsol simulations

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electronic-equivalent microfluidic circuits

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verilog-ams

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simulation

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systems

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design

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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GR-SCI-IEL  
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March 28, 2022
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