Lattice-Boltzmann Modelling for Inertial Particle Microfluidics Applications — A Tutorial Review

Ben Owen, Konstantinos Kechagidis, Sajad Razavi Bazaz, Romain Enjalbert, Erich Essmann, Calum Mallorie, Fatemehsadat Mirghaderi, Christian Schaaf, Krishnaveni Thota, Rohan Vernekar, Qi Zhou, Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani, Holger Stark, Timm Krüger

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Abstract / Description of output

Inertial particle microfluidics (IPMF) is an emerging technology for the manipulation and separation of microparticles and biological cells. Since the flow physics of IPMF is complex and experimental studies are often time-consuming or costly, computer simulations can offer complementary insights. In this tutorial review, we provide a guide for researchers who are exploring the potential of the lattice-Boltzmann (LB) method for simulating IPMF ap-plications. We first review the existing literature to establish the state of the art of LB-based IPMF modelling. After summarising the physics of IPMF, we then present related methods used in LB models for IPMF and show sev-eral case studies of LB simulations for a range of IPMF scenarios. Finally, we conclude with an outlook and several proposed research directions.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2246704
JournalAdvances in Physics X
Volume8
Issue number1
Early online date24 Sept 2023
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 24 Sept 2023

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Lattice-Boltzmann method
  • inertial microfluidics
  • numerical modelling
  • particle focusing
  • particle separation

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