Numerical simulation of mixing fluid with ferrofluid in a magnetic field using the meshless SPH method

Abdolahzadeh, Mohsen (author), Tayebi, Ali (author), Ahmadinejad, Mehrdad (author), Šarler, Božidar (author)

In this study, a numerical investigation of the effect of different magnetic fields on ferrofluid-fluid mixing processes in a two-dimensional microchannel is performed An improved version of smoothed particle hydrodynamics, SPH, by shifting particle algorithm and dummy particle boundary condition, is implemented to solve numerical continuity, ferrohydrodynamics-based momentum and mass transfer equations. SPH is formulated through the irregular arrangement of the nodes where the fields are approximated using the fifth-order Wendland kernel function. After validating the computational approach, the influence of the number (from one to three) of parallel electrical wires positioned perpendicular to the microchannel on the mixing efficiency is studied for the first time. It has originally been found that the mixing efficiency highly non-linearly depends on the Reynolds number and the number of electrical wires. For Re ≤20, the mixing efficiency is almost the same for two and three electrical wires and about two times higher than one electrical wire. For Re ≥ 80, the mixing efficiency of three wires is much higher than one and two electrical wires. Optimum performance of the micromixer is achieved with three electrical wires, since the mixer performs well on a broader range of Re than the other two studied cases. The outcomes of this study, obtained by a meshless method, are important for the industrial design of micromixers.

• Language: English
• Keywords: mixing process, ferrofluids, magnetic field, active micromixers, SPH method
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.10.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 12 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 7, iss. 11, art. 341
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-142364
• UDC: 532:66.02:519.62
• ISSN on article: 2311-5521
• DOI: 10.3390/fluids7110341
• COBISS.SI-ID: 127806979
• Publication date in RUL: 03.11.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Fluids
• Shortened title: Fluids
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• ISSN: 2311-5521
• COBISS.SI-ID: 525935385

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: mešanje, ferofluidi, magnetno polje, mikromešala, SPH metoda

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0162
• Name: Večfazni sistemi

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J2-4477
• Name: Razvoj inovativnih brezmrežnih metod za večfizikalne in večnivojske simulacije vrhunskih tehnologij