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

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA403586

Entities

People

  • John R. Gilbert
  • Manish Deshpande

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Electrical Circuits
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluidics
  • Geometry
  • Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Reynolds Number
  • Simulations
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Steady State
  • Three Dimensional
  • Time Domain
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.