Flume Computer-Aided Design (CAD): Integrated CAD for Microflume Components and Systems.

摘要

This effort was aimed at developing a computer-aided design (CAD) system to allow start-to-finish design of a broad class of micromechanical fluid systems. The NetFlow program, previously completed under DARPA funding, developed the capability to model the diverse transport phenomena that are present in micromechanical systems. FlumeCAD extends this toolkit to include simulation of active components as well as providing the capability to extract behavior models. Tools for simulating the entire device at the full time domain system level were also developed. All original milestones were met and the FlumeCAD software has been successfully released commercially.