Lehre

10.04. – 16.04.2024

In the past decades, the field of microfluidics has undergone a rapid development, with a number of emerging application areas such as lab-on-a-chip technology. In contrast to their macroscopic counterparts, flows in microfluidic devices are mostly laminar. This opens up unprecedented possibilities of designing and optimizing these devices “in silico”, since modeling and simulation based on first-principle theoretical descriptions such as the Navier-Stokes equation instead of heuristic models such as turbulence models becomes possible.

The tutorium “CFD-based simulation and optimization of microfluidic components”, offered by the Institute of Nano- and Microfluidics, will equip students with the basic methodology needed to design and optimize microfluidic components on the computer. Based on the commercial CFD solver COMSOL Multiphysics, selected microfluidic components such as micromixers and microvalves will be simulated and optimized. The tutorium includes a brief introduction to the COMSOL Multiphysics software. Familiarity with basic concepts of Computational Fluid Dynamics is a prerequisite.