Accelerated Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Microfluidic Devices by Exploiting Higher Levels of Abstraction

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel simulation approach that significantly speeds up CFD simulations for microfluidic devices by leveraging higher abstraction levels, achieving faster results without sacrificing accuracy.

Contribution

The paper presents a new simulation method that combines high-level abstraction with CFD, enabling rapid and accurate microfluidic device simulations.

Findings

Accelerates CFD simulations by several orders of magnitude

Maintains high fidelity comparable to traditional CFD methods

Enables efficient design of complex microfluidic devices

Abstract

The design of microfluidic devices is a cumbersome and tedious process that can be significantly improved by simulation. Methods based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are considered state-of-the-art, but require extensive compute time - oftentimes limiting the size of microfluidic devices that can be simulated. Simulation methods that abstract the underlying physics on a higher level generally provide results instantly, but the fidelity of these methods is usually worse. In this work, a simulation method that accelerates CFD simulations by exploiting simulation methods on higher levels of abstraction is proposed. Case studies confirm that the proposed method accelerates CFD simulations by multiple factors (often several orders of magnitude) while maintaining the fidelity of CFD simulations.