Simulation and Analysis of T-Junction Microchannel

• Main Authors: Kainat Nabi, Rida Rafi, Muhammad Waseem Ashraf, Shahzadi Tayyaba, Zahoor Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Faran Baig, Nitin Afzulpurkar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IFSA Publishing, S.L. 2013-05-01
• Series: Sensors & Transducers
• Subjects: Finite element method; MEMS; Microfluidic; Microchannel
• Online Access: http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/may_2013/P_1204.pdf

Microelectromechanical (MEMS) bring the great revolution in microfluidics. Particularly microchannels are extensively studied in last few years. This paper presents the microfluidic analysis of T-junction type microchannel. ANSYS has been used for microfluidic analysis. The length of microchannel is 1000 µm and length of T-junction is 500 µm. The diameter of microchannel is 100 µm. The velocity and fluid flow variation through the T-junction have been analyzed in computational fluid dynamic (CFX) environment at applied pressure of 100 kPa, 200 kPa and 300 kPa. The maximum velocities vector at the T-Junction walls 3.910e1, 5.701e1 and 7.734e1 have been achieved. The flow rates of 341, 572 and 673 mL/min have been observed through the microchannel with diameters of 100 µm.