CFD simulation of micro-particle trapping under water tweezers

  • Xin-Hua Yi ,
  • Xiao-Min Cheng ,
  • Feng-Lian Niu ,
  • Hong-Chao Fan
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  • X.-H. Yi (&)  X.-M. Cheng  H.-C. Fan
    School of Mechanical Engineering, Ningbo University of
    Technology, Ningbo 315016, People’s Republic of China
    F.-L. Niu
    School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Ningbo
    Dahongying University, Ningbo 315175, People’s Republic of
    China

Online published: 2014-09-25

Abstract

In early research, capture and manipulation of particles were mainly achieved by means of light, electricity and plasma in micro-fabrication and micro-assembly. A new method is proposed using micro-water jet to form water tweezers to capture solid particles and implement position control of micro-particles. This paper analyzes the basic principle of water tweezers, and the discrete element method and smoothed particle hydrodynamics method are employed to establish a solid-liquid coupling model used in analyzing the trapping mechanism. A flow field model is set up to simulate dynamic characteristic of water tweezers based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Selection of boundary conditions, initial guess, solver control and convergence strategies of the model are discussed. Velocity and pressure of streamline are predicted and discussed under certain input conditions. Simulation results demonstrate that it is an efficiently theoretical method to eventually trap solid particles by water tweezers.

Cite this article

Xin-Hua Yi , Xiao-Min Cheng , Feng-Lian Niu , Hong-Chao Fan . CFD simulation of micro-particle trapping under water tweezers[J]. Advances in Manufacturing, 2014 , 2(3) : 259 -264 . DOI: 10.1007/s40436-014-0055-4

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