Print Email Facebook Twitter Manipulation of particles in a Hele-Shaw cell using sources and sinks Title Manipulation of particles in a Hele-Shaw cell using sources and sinks Author Deka, Antaran (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering; TU Delft Process and Energy) Contributor Westerweel, Jerry (mentor) Tam, Daniel (mentor) Kislaya, Ankur (mentor) Schrijer, Ferdinand (graduation committee) Eral, Burak (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Mechanical Engineering Date 2018-02-01 Abstract The interest in manipulating particles, droplets and bubbles have garnered significant attention in recent years, owing to the advantages offered by micro-fluidics and the advancement in micro-fabrication technologies. These manipulation activities have found its applications in myriad fields of engineering, ranging from medical diagnostics to chemical industry to drug discovery. This has increased demand for the development of devices such as 'Lab on a chip', which performs laboratory-sized experiments and analysis on a single small chip, with the same speed and accuracy as its room-sized counterpart. However, manipulation activities carried out in these devices has fixed channels, designed to serve purpose for specific manipulation tasks. This makes the device suitable for a specific application. Addressing this aspect, a device designed without having any real channels would give an opportunity to integrate multiple functionalities onto a single-chip in the long run. As a first step towards reaching this 'bigger picture', it is necessary to explore the feasibility of manipulating particles, droplets and bubbles by generating so called 'virtual channels'.The present thesis focuses on an attempt to manipulate particles without the use of any real channels or external field. Although such manipulation is desired in the micro-scale, a top down approach is preferred and hence, the manipulation is carried out in a scaled up model. First, a Hele-Shaw flow cell is designed with sources and sinks in the millimeter scale to deviate streamlines in the same range. Thereafter, four different velocity fields are studied under different combination of sources and sinks, which are then compared to the computational ones. The property of a Hele-Shaw cell that the averaged velocity over the height of the channel is irrotational, makes it possible to compute velocity fields by the use of potential flow theory. The same velocity fields are hence, computed using a discrete source based Panel Method. A good agreement is found between computation and experiment, making PIV measurements not a necessary option for evaluation of velocity fields under these sources and sinks. Finally, individual particle is inserted into the Hele-Shaw cell and manipulated using unsteady fields. The manipulation includes tasks such as diverting particles having same initial position to different end locations; trapping particle for different instances of time and then releasing them into different directions; flipping positions of two particles; and deflecting a particle by ninety degrees. The individual particle trajectory for the above manipulation activities are tracked down using a particle tracking code and then compared with the ones generated using the Panel Method. This, however, excludes the activities where particles need to be trapped because of particle fluctuation near stagnation point. Overall, the Panel Method serves well in predicting particle path-lines and can be used as a tool for manipulating particles. Subject Hele-Shaw cellsources and sinksVolume illuminated PIVParticle manipulation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fe2ef1cc-836a-4ad0-bbe8-c60bed1dd592 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Antaran Deka Files PDF Antaran.pdf 26.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fe2ef1cc-836a-4ad0-bbe8-c60bed1dd592/datastream/OBJ/view