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MEMS Module
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Fluid-Structure Interaction
This is a model exemplifying how fluid-structure interactions can be modeled using COMSOL Multiphysics. Viscous forces and the system’s pressure impose forces to the surface of a structure. The deformation in the soft structure is not small and the fluid regime will therefore dynamically change. T...
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Filling of a Capillary Channel
This example studies a narrow vertical cylinder placed on top of a reservoir filled with water. Because of wall adhesion and surface tension at the air/water interface, water rises through the channel.
Surface tension and wall adhesive forces are often used to transport fluid through microchannel...
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Droplet Breakup in a T-junction
Emulsions consist of small liquid droplets immersed in an immiscible liquid and widely occur in the production of food, cosmetics, fine chemicals, and pharmaceutical products. The quality of the product is typically dependent on the size of the droplets. Simulating these processes can help in optimi...
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Inkjet
This example demonstrates how to model the fluid flow from an inkjet, for instance, within an inkjet printer. An ink droplet is ejected through a nozzle and travels through air until it hits the target.
A conservative level set method is used to track the interface between air and ink. The fluid...
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Fluid-Structure Interaction with Two Fluid Phases
The following example demonstrates techniques for modeling a fluid-structure interaction containing two fluid phases in COMSOL Multiphysics. It illustrates how a heavier fluid can induce movement in an obstacle using the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) technique along with the Two-Phase Flow, Ph...
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Microresistor Beam
The example illustrates the ability to couple thermal, electrical, and structural analysis in the one model. This particular application displaces part of a beam by passing a current through it; the current generates heat, and the temperature increase leads to displacement through thermal expansion....
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Cantilever Beam
The elastic cantilever beam is one of the elementary structures used in MEMS designs.
This model shows the bending of a cantilever beam under an applied electrostatic load. This is computed from the electric field that is solved in the deforming geometry/mesh domain using the Arbitrary Lagrangian...
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Comb Drive
Rectangular comb drives are used in a variety of applications in MEMS systems. This is a model of an electrostatically-actuated comb drive used to open and close a pair of microtweezers.
Because electrostatic forces attract the combs to each other, any geometric change has an impact on the elect...
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Electroosmotic Micromixer
Microlaboratories for biochemical applications often require rapid mixing of different fluid streams. At the microscale, flow is usually highly ordered laminar flow, and the lack of turbulence makes diffusion the primary mechanism for mixing.
While diffusional mixing of small molecules (and ther...
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Composite Piezoelectric Transducer
This example shows how to set up a piezoelectric transducer problem following the work of Y. Kagawa and T. Yamabuchi.
The composite piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer has a cylindrical geometry that consists of a piezoceramic layer, two aluminum layers, and two adhesive layers. The system appli...
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