3D Finite Diference Formulation and Simulation of EHD Ion-Drag Model | VFAST Transactions on Mathematics 2022

Author(s)

Shakeel Ahmed Kamboh Department of Mathematics and Statistics,QUEST,Nawabshah, Pakistan

Sakina Kamboh Department of Statistics,University of Sindh,76080, Jamshoro,Pakistan

Abbas Ali Ghoto Department of Mathematics and Statistics,QUEST,Nawabshah, Pakistan

Fozia Shaikh Department of Basic Sciences and Related Studies, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology,Jamshoro, Sindh,Pakistan

Nawab Khan Department of Natural Sciences , Begum Nusrat Bhutto Women University Sukkur, Pakistan

K. N. Memon Department of Mathematics and Statistics,QUEST,Nawabshah, Pakistan

Abstract

This paper presents the simulation of electrohydrodynamically driven micropump obtained by using 3D finite difference method. EHD governing equations are discretized and then explicitly defined for output parameters. A 3D prototype of ion-drag micropump with symmetric electrodes is modeled and simulated for the velocity, the pressure, electric potential and electric field. The objective of this study was to evaluate the results obtained by finite difference method (FDM) with the results obtained by a finite element method (FEM) based simulation package COMSOL Multiphysics. The comparison reveals that the numerical simulation results obtained by both the methods are appreciably close to each other. The simulation results are also compared with the existing experimental data and it was found that there are not high discrepancies between simulation and experimental results. The paper concludes that in case of regular geometries of ion-drag micropump the FDM is easy to implement and provides more control on different parameters involved in the simulation as compared to built-in finite element method based package.

Publication Details

Page(s) 31-42

DOI DOI not available

Published Journal: VFAST Transactions on Mathematics, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Year: 2022

Keywords

finite element method Modeling and Simulation Finite difference method Electrohydrodynamics Iondrag pumping Subject Classification Finite element analysis and Modeling and Simulation

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