마이크로 유전 알고리즘을 이용한 삼각형 혼합요소를 갖는 Passive 마이크로믹서의 최적화

Abstract

Triangular-shaped mixing elements have been placed in the micromixer to improve the mixing. While the mixing elements improve the efficiency of the mixing, they increase the pressure drop. Hence, the micropump may fail to drive the fluids through the micromixer. In this study, a micro genetic algorithm is used to find an optimum design variables of the passive micromixer with triangular-shaped mixing elements and a weighted approach method is employed to investigate the multi-objective function problem. We have also found the pareto optimal solutions between the mixing efficiency and the pressure drop.