Issue 22, 2021

Particle actuation by rotating magnetic fields in microchannels: a numerical study

Abstract

Magnetic particles confined in microchannels can be actuated to perform translation motion using a rotating magnetic field, but their actuation in such a situation is not yet well understood. Here, the actuation of a ferromagnetic particle confined in square microchannels is studied using immersed-boundary lattice Boltzmann simulations. In wide channels, when a sphere is positioned close to a side wall but away from channel corners, it experiences a modest hydrodynamic actuation force parallel to the channel walls. This force decreases as the sphere is shifted toward the bottom wall but the opposite trend is found when the channel is narrow. When the sphere is positioned midway between the top and bottom channel walls, the actuation force decreases as the channel width decreases and can reverse its direction. These phenomena are elucidated by studying the flow and pressure fields in the channel-particle system and by analyzing the viscous and pressure components of the hydrodynamic force acting on different parts of the sphere.

Graphical abstract: Particle actuation by rotating magnetic fields in microchannels: a numerical study

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Jan 2021
Accepted
07 May 2021
First published
07 May 2021

Soft Matter, 2021,17, 5590-5601

Author version available

Particle actuation by rotating magnetic fields in microchannels: a numerical study

S. Ham, W. Fang and R. Qiao, Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 5590 DOI: 10.1039/D1SM00127B

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