Numerical and Experimental Analyses of Three-Dimensional Unsteady Flow around a Micro-Pillar Subjected to Rotational Vibration
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Kanji Kaneko 1,2, Takayuki Osawa 2, Yukinori Kametani 2, Takeshi Hayakawa 1
, Yosuke Hasegawa 2,* and Hiroaki Suzuki 1,*
Kanji Kaneko 1,2, Takayuki Osawa 2, Yukinori Kametani 2, Takeshi Hayakawa 1, Yosuke Hasegawa 2,* and Hiroaki Suzuki 1,*
1
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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Micromachines 2018, 9(12), 668; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi9120668
Received: 6 November 2018 / Revised: 10 December 2018 / Accepted: 13 December 2018 / Published: 17 December 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 9th Symposium on Micro-Nano Science and Technology on Micromachines)
The steady streaming (SS) phenomenon is gaining increased attention in the microfluidics community, because it can generate net mass flow from zero-mean vibration. We developed numerical simulation and experimental measurement tools to analyze this vibration-induced flow, which has been challenging due to its unsteady nature. The validity of these analysis methods is confirmed by comparing the three-dimensional (3D) flow field and the resulting particle trajectories induced around a cylindrical micro-pillar under circular vibration. In the numerical modeling, we directly solved the flow in the Lagrangian frame so that the substrate with a micro-pillar becomes stationary, and the results were converted to a stationary Eulerian frame to compare with the experimental results. The present approach enables us to avoid the introduction of a moving boundary or infinitesimal perturbation approximation. The flow field obtained by the micron-resolution particle image velocimetry (micro-PIV) measurement supported the three-dimensionality observed in the numerical results, which could be important for controlling the mass transport and manipulating particulate objects in microfluidic systems.
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Kaneko, K.; Osawa, T.; Kametani, Y.; Hayakawa, T.; Hasegawa, Y.; Suzuki, H. Numerical and Experimental Analyses of Three-Dimensional Unsteady Flow around a Micro-Pillar Subjected to Rotational Vibration. Micromachines 2018, 9, 668.
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