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  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mechanical Engineering

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  • Passive valves offer advantages in microfluidic systems.
  • Existing Tesla valves face efficiency challenges at low flow rates.

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  • To develop an optimized Tesla valve design for efficient low-flow operation in microfluidics.
  • To create easily fabricable and compact valve structures for microfluidic integration.

Main Methods:

  • Multistage optimization using topological optimization and finite element method (FEM).
  • Shallow-channel approximation for 2D numerical optimization.
  • 3D extrusion of optimized designs for fabrication.
  • Experimental characterization including diodicity measurement and micro-particle image velocimetry (μPIV).

Main Results:

  • Achieved diodicity up to 1.8 at a Reynolds number of 36 (20 μl/s).
  • Good agreement between experimental diodicity measurements and 3D simulations.
  • Reasonable agreement observed between measured and simulated flow profiles using μPIV.

Conclusions:

  • The developed multistage optimization method successfully yields efficient Tesla valves for low-flow microfluidic applications.
  • The optimized designs are suitable for fabrication using standard microfabrication techniques.
  • The study validates the simulation approach through experimental comparison, paving the way for cost-effective microfluidic systems.