Microfluidic flow control systems are critical components for on-chip biomedical applications.
This study introduces a new micropump for on-chip sample preparation and analysis by …

The newly designed proton exchange membrane fuel cell with a piezoelectric actuation
structure, called a PZT-PEMFC, can force air into an air-breathing PEMFC system. Previous …

The paper reports the first study on the backpressure of a valveless electromagnetic
micropump using the volume-of-fluid (VOF) technique and open-source code OpenFOAM …

Valveless micropumps require the integration of microdiffusers/nozzles for flow rectification
in microfluidic systems. The flow directing capability of a micropump is determined by the …

This study numerically investigates the performance of micronozzle/diffuser pump subject to
the influence of frequency, opening angle, geometric dimension, and amplitude. For the …

In this study, a hybridized neuro-genetic optimization methodology realized by embedding
numerical simulations trained artificial neural networks (ANN) into a genetic algorithm (GA) …

The effects of driving voltage waveform and frequencies on the performance of
piezoelectrically actuated micropump are investigated in details. A full three-dimensional …

Previous studies of a piezoelectric proton exchange membrane fuel cell with nozzle and
diffuser (PZT-PEMFC-ND) have shown that a PZT device could solve the cathode flooding …

This work presents an approximate nonlinear analytical model for the problem of fluid–
structural interaction in a valveless micropump. The model is constructed using the lumped …

This paper presents a design optimization of valveless micropump using Genetic Algorithms
(GA). The micropump is designed with a diaphragm, pumping chamber and diffuser/nozzle …