基于微通道构型的微流体流动控制研究

微通道不仅仅是作为流体流动的单元, 更是进行流体控制的工具,微通道自身特性和特征用在实现微流体的驱动、进样、混合、分离以及液滴的产生、控制等方面已经表现出了良好的效果.由于微通道中比表面积非常大, 表面效应极大影响流体流动,近年来多数研究集中在应用表面效应来实现微流体驱动与控制,而以利用微通道结构特征实现流体流动控制为目标的研究成果相对较少.为了提高对通道构型作用的认识,主要介绍了基于微通道构型的无可动部件的流体微阀和基于微通道构型微小液滴的产生及流动控制器两个方面的发展情况,表明微通道构型在微流体控制中同样可以发挥重要作用,甚至有望带来微流控技术的突破.      

微纳米结构壁面对流场及动压润滑的影响研究

固体边界具有的微纳米结构将影响流体在近壁面处的流动行为,进而由于尺度效应改变流体在整个微间隙的流动或润滑规律.将壁面可渗透微纳米结构等效为多孔介质薄膜,采用Brinkman方程来描述流体在近壁面边界渗透层内的流动,并将其与自由流动区域的不可压缩流体Navier-Stokes控制方程耦合,在界面处的连续边界条件下求解和分析了速度分布规律和压力变化规律.针对恒定法向承载力的油膜润滑条件,进一步讨论了静止表面或运动表面的微纳米结构对近壁面流动行为的影响;并揭示了考虑壁面微纳米结构的流体动压润滑的油膜厚度和摩擦系数的变化规律.论文结果为具有可渗透微结构表面的微间隙流动与润滑提供了理论参考.     

微尺度圆管内气体流量的实验测量

以氮气和氦气为工作介质,研究了微尺度(φ=17.6μm,17.9μm)圆管内压力驱动的气体流动,测量了在不同进出口压力下的流量,并与计算值进行了比较.结果表明,即使对于极低Mach数(M=0.003～0.03)流动,其可压缩性仍十分明显,它来源于微尺度效应.在本文的实验参数下,Kundsen数范围为3×10-3～7×10-3,表面滑移不明显,稀薄气体效应可以忽略.     

气体运动论数值算法在微槽道流中的应用研究

简要介绍基于Boltzmann模型方程的气体运动论数值算法基本思想及其对二维微槽道流动问题数值计算的推广，并阐述适用于微尺度流动问题的气体运动论边界条件数值处理方法。通过对压力驱动的二维微槽道流动问题进行数值模拟，将不同Knudsen数下的微槽道流计算结果分别与有关DSMC模拟值和经滑移流理论修正的N—S方程解进行比较分析，表明基于Boltzmann模型方程的气体运动论数值算法对微槽道气体流动问题具有很好的模拟能力。     

基于MEMS的流动主动控制技术及其研究进展

MEMS技术与流动控制技术的结合, 使得流动主动控制技术的实际应用逐步成为现实, 极大地推动了流动主动控制技术的发展. 简述了流动主动控制技术的基本原理、关键技术, 以及应用MEMS技术实现流动主动控制的机理和途径. 介绍了几家国外研究机构近年来在流动主动控制技术领域基于MEMS技术的微传感、微控制和微执行技术及其集成技术的研究进展, 以及在三角翼前沿涡控制、减阻研究、发动机喷流控制、细长体背风面分离流控制等方面的应用情况.      

微纳结构超疏水表面的湍流减阻机理研究

超疏水表面的优异性质使其在现代生活和工业生产中具有十分广泛的潜在应用价值. 本文采用了碳纳米管缠绕技术和聚氟硅氧烷疏水化处理方法制备了具有二级微纳米结构的超疏水表面. 测量了由该超疏水表面构建的槽道中的流动压降,将其与普通表面构建的槽道内的流动压降进行比较,发现在层流情况下,流动阻力减小最多达到了22.8%. 在湍流的情况下,超疏水表面的减阻比例约为53.3%,减阻效果比层流更加明显.利用PIV (particle image velocimetry) 技术测量了具有超疏水表面的槽道内的速度场,通过超疏水表面速度滑移和湍动脉动场信息,分析了湍流减阻效果比层流更加明显的物理机制.     

黏度对流固界面滑移影响的试验研究

为了研究微纳米间隙下固液界面间流体的流动及输运特性,本文改进了商用的原子力显微镜,并利用其对微纳米间隙下固液界面的边界滑移现象进行了试验研究,重点考察了流体黏度对边界滑移的影响.固体壁面样品采用Si(100)表面,试验液体采用不同黏度的去离子水和蔗糖溶液.结果表明,Si(100)表面与去离子水和蔗糖溶液作用会发生边界滑移,而且随着溶液黏度的升高,滑移长度也随之升高,表现了边界滑移与流体黏度的相关性.所得结果对于微流体输运与控制有重要的理论意义与实际价值.     

微沟槽结构注塑成形的充型过程计算方法

微注塑成形制造方法适合于热塑性材料微小型器件大批量加工,对微注塑关键步骤——充型进行分析计算,有助于微注塑工艺参数和模具结构优化。目前研究表明,微尺度聚合物熔体流动与常规流动存在显著差异,采用常规尺度流动计算分析工具会带来较大偏差。本文以开源计算代码OpenFOAM为基础,综合由实验获得的熔体表面特性规律和粘度变化规律等,采用面向对象编程方法构建了熔体填充微结构型腔流动过程的计算模块,以微流体器件中的典型微结构——微沟槽注塑充型过程为例进行数值模拟,分析了表面力和粘度作用对其注塑充型填充率的影响。     

微尺度气体流动

了解微尺度气体流动特点是微机电系统设计和优化的基础.有关的研究可以上溯到20世纪初Knudsen的平面槽道流动质量流量的测量和Millikan的小球阻力系数的测量,实验结果揭示了稀薄气体效应即尺度效应对气体运动的重要影响.由于流动特征长度很小,微尺度气流经常处于滑流区甚至过渡领域,流动的相似参数为Knudsen数和Mach数.因此可以考虑利用相似准则,通过增大几何尺寸、减小压力的途径,解决微机电系统实验观测遇到的困难.为解决直接模拟Monte Carlo方法分析微机电系统中低速稀薄气流遇到的统计涨落困难,我们提出了信息保存法(IP),该方法能够有效克服统计散布,并已成功用于多种微尺度气流.      

微电子机械系统和流体流动

出现于８０年代后期的微机械工艺技术可提供微米尺度的传感器和致动器．这些微型转换器与信号调节和处理电路集成后，组成了可执行分布式实时控制的微电子机械系统（ＭＥＭＳ）．这种性能为流动控制研究开辟了一个崭新的领域．另一方面，由于微米尺度结构中表面积与体积之比很大，在流体流经这些微小机械器件时，表面效应占据了主导地位．为此需要重新审视动量方程中的各类表面力项．由于它们非常小，气体流动具有很大的Ｋｎｕｄｓｅｎ数，所以边界条件也应加以修正．总之，微电子机械系统（ＭＥＭＳ）不但是一项实用技术，也为流动机理的基础研究提出了许多挑战．     

Evaporation and flow dynamics of thin, shear-driven liquid films in microgap channels

Thin and ultra-thin shear-driven liquid films in a narrow channel are a promising candidate for the thermal management of advanced semiconductor devices in earth and space applications. Such flows experience complex, and as yet poorly understood, two-phase flow phenomena requiring significant advances in fundamental research before they could be broadly applied. This paper focuses on the results obtained in experiments with locally heated shear-driven liquid films in a flat mini-channel. A detailed map of the flow sub-regimes in a shear-driven liquid film flow of water and FC-72 have been obtained for a 2 mm channel operating at room temperature. While the water film can be smooth under certain liquid/gas flow rates, the surface of an intensively evaporating film of FC-72 is always distorted by a pattern of waves and structures. It was found, that when heated the shear-driven liquid films are less likely to rupture than gravity-driven liquid films. For shear-driven water films the critical heat flux was found of up to 10 times higher than that for a falling film, which makes shear-driven films (annular or stratified two-phase flows) more suitable for cooling applications than falling liquid films.     

Beating capillarity in thin film flows

The combination of substrate unevenness and capillarity is known to induce far‐reaching perturbations at the free surface of thin liquid films. These might be undesired and this paper explores the possibility to control the free surface of thin liquid films to give it a prescribed profile by a suitable design of the underlying substrate. This corresponds to the inverse of the widely studied forward problem, which considers the effect of substrate unevenness on a free surface. Assuming that the steady free surface profile can be described by the lubrication approximation, this optimal control problem is shown to be governed by a first‐order partial differential equation, which is solved numerically using the method of characteristics. The proposed method is successfully tested for a range of desired free surface profiles and the domain of existence of a solution to the inverse problem is probed. Expectedly, it is shown that, owing to surface tension, not all free surface profiles can be achieved but in some cases capillarity can be beaten and a prescribed free surface profile obtained. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Nonlinear resonance in viscous films on inclined wavy planes

We study nonlinear resonance in viscous gravity-driven films flowing over undulated substrates. Numerical solution of the full, steady Navier–Stokes equations is used to follow the emergence of the first few free-surface harmonics with increasing wall amplitude, and to study their parametric dependence on film thickness, inertia and capillarity. Bistable resonance is computed for steep enough bottom undulations. As an analytic approach, we apply the integral boundary-layer method and derive an asymptotic equation valid for rather thin films. The analysis recovers the key numerical findings and provides qualitative understanding. It shows that higher harmonics are generated by a nonlinear coupling of the wall with lower-order harmonics of the free surface. It also accounts for bistable resonance, and produces a minimum model whose solution is similar to that of the Duffing oscillator.     

Influence of the capillarity on a creeping film flow down an inclined plane with an edge

Summary In creeping flows of thin films, the capillarity can play a dominant role. In this paper, the creeping film flow down an inclined plane with an edge is considered. The influence of the capillarity on the velocity and the film surface is studied analytically, numerically and experimentally. Received 12 April 1999; accepted for publication 9 May 1999     

An extended study of the hydrodynamics of gravity-driven film flow of power-law fluids

A new similarity transformation has been devised for extensive studies of accelerating non-Newtonian film flow. The partial differential equations governing the hydrodynamics of the flow of a power-law fluid down along an inclined plane surface are transformed into a set of two ordinary differential equations by means of the dimensionless velocity component approach. Although the analysis is applicable for any angle of inclination (0<π/2), the resulting one-parameter problem involves only the power-law index n. Nevertheless, physically essential quantities, like the velocity components and the skin-friction coefficient, do depend on and relevant relationships are deduced between the vertical and inclined cases. Accurate numerical similarity solutions are provided for n in the range from 0.1 to 2.0. The present method enables solutions to be obtained also for highly pseudo-plastic films, i.e. for n below 0.5. The mass flow rate entrained into the momentum boundary layer from the inviscid freestream is expressed in terms of a dimensionless mass flux parameter Φ, which depends on the dimensionless boundary layer thickness and the velocity components at the edge of the viscous boundary layer. Φ, which is thus an integral part of the similarity solution, turns out to decrease monotonically with n. This parameter is of particular relevance in the determination of the streamwise position at which the entire freestream has been entrained and viscous stresses prevail all the way to the free surface of the film. A short-cut method to facilitate rapid and yet accurate estimates of the mass flux parameter is developed to this end.     

Linear resonance in viscous films on inclined wavy planes

We study viscous gravity-driven films flowing over periodically undulated substrates. Linear analysis describes steady flow along small amplitude corrugations for films of arbitrary thickness. Solving the resulting system numerically, we demonstrate resonance (or, possibly, near resonance) and identify different behaviours for thin, intermediate and thick films. Approximating the leading-order velocity profile by the free surface value allows for an analytic solution, which – in the limit of high Reynolds numbers – recovers the different regimes and reveals the relevant physical mechanisms. Our results support the view that the resonance is associated with an interaction of the undulated film with capillary-gravity waves travelling against the mean flow direction. As a consequence, the resonance peak is attained under conditions that render the wave phase velocity equal to zero in the laboratory reference frame, and thus permit direct exchange of energy between the steadily deformed film and the free surface.     

Wrinkling of a charged elastic film on a viscous layer

A thin metallic film deposited on a compliant polymeric substrate begins to wrinkle under compression induced in curing process and afterwards cooling of the system. The wrinkle mode depends upon the thin film elasticity, thickness, compressive strain, as well as mechanical properties of the compliant substrate. This paper presents a simple model to study the modulation of the wrinkle mode of thin metallic films bonded on viscous layers in external electric field. During the procedure, linear perturbation analysis was performed for determining the characteristic relation that governs the evolution of the plane-strain wrinkle of the thin films under varying conditions, i.e., the maximally unstable wrinkle mode as a function of the film surface charge, film elasticity and thickness, misfit strain, as well as thickness and viscosity of the viscous layer. It shows that, in proper electric field, thin film may wrinkle subjected to either compression or tension. Therefore, external electric field can be employed to modulate the wrinkle mode of thin films. The present results can be used as the theoretical basis for wrinkling analysis and mode modulation in surface metallic coatings, drying adhesives and paints, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), etc.     

Pore-scale network model for drainage-dominated three-phase flow in porous media

Drainage displacements in three-phase flow under strongly wetting conditions are completely described by a simple generalisation of well understood two-phase drainage mechanisms. As in two-phase flow, the sequence of throat invasions in three-phase flow is determined by fluid connectivity and threshold capillary pressure for the invading interface. Flow through wetting and intermediate spreading films is important in determining fluid recoveries and the progress of the displacement in three-phase flow. Viscous pressure drops associated with flow through films give rise to multiple filling and emptying of pores. A three-phase, two-dimensional network model based on the pore-scale fluid distributions and displacement mechanisms reported by Øren et al. and which accounts for flow through both wetting and intermediate fluid films is shown to correctly predict all the important characteristics of three-phase flow observed in glass micromodel experiments.