Optimization of Micromixer with Staggered Herringbone Grooves on Top and Bottom Walls

摘要

AbstractMulti-objective shape optimization of a micromixer with staggered herringbone grooves on the top and bottom walls has been performed through three-dimensional Navier–Stokes analysis, surrogate method and multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. Mixing index and friction factor are selected as objective functions, and four design variables, viz., number of grooves per half cycle (N), angle of groove (θ), groove depth to channel height ratio (d/h), and groove width to pitch ratio (Wd/pi) are chosen out of the various geometric parameters which affect the performance of the micromixer for the shape optimization. Numerical analysis has been performed with two working fluids, viz., water and ethanol at Reynolds number 1. The variance of the mass fraction at various nodes on a plane is used to quantify the mixing performance in the micromixer. The design space is explored through some preliminary calculations and a Latin hypercube sampling method is used as a design of experiments to exploit the design s...