Areas of Expertise
Numerical Design Inc. has over 14 years of experience in numerical simulation of a variety of physics including the following areas.
Fluid Flow
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Microfluidic Flow
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Computational Fluid Mechanics
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Fluid – Structure Interaction
Chemical Engineering
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Chemical Reaction Engineering
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Flow Sheet Development and Analysis
Thermal Management
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Heat Transfer
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Thermodynamics
Semiconductor Fabrication and MEMS
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MEMS Design and Fabrication
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Semiconductor Process Development
Electromagnetics
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RF Systems
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Photonic Structures & Systems
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Light Scattering
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Electrical Motors & Generators
Acoustics
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Microfluidic Acoustics
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Large-Scale Systems
Intellectual Property Development
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Conceptual Development
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Technical IP Strategy
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Engineering Development of IP Concepts
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Development of Specification and Claims
Selected Publications using COMSOL Multiphysics
AC electroosmotic flow in a DNA concentrator
Bown, M.R, C. D. Meinhart 2006 AC electroosmotic flow in a DNA concentrator. Micro and Nanofluidics, Vol. 2, 513.
AC electrothermal enhancement of heterogeneous assays in microfluidics
Feldman, H., Sigurdson, M., Meinhart, C.D. 2007. AC electrothermal enhancement of heterogeneous assays in microfluidics, Lab on a Chip. Vol. 7, pp. 1553.
Free-surface microfluidic control of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for the optimized detection of airborne molecules
Piorek, B.D, Lee, S.-J., Santiago, J.G., Moskovits, M., Banerjee, S. & Meinhart, C. D. 2007 Free-surface microfluidic control of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for the optimized detection of airborne molecules Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104, 18898-18901.
How to Exploit the Features of Microfluidics Technology
Pennathur, S., Meinhart, C.D., and Soh, T.H. 2008. How to Exploit the Features of Microfluidics Technology. Lab on a Chip Vol. 8, 20-22.
A unified scaling model for flow through a lattice of microfabricated posts
Srivastava, N., Ding, C., Judson, A., MacDonald, N., and Meinhart, C.D. 2010. A unified scaling model for flow through a lattice of microfabricated posts, Lab on a Chip, 10, 1148-1152.
Microliter-bioreactor array with buoyancy-driven stirring for human hematopietic stem cell culture
Luni, C., Feldman, H.C, Pozzobon, M., Coppi, P.D., Meinhart, C.D., Elvassore, N. 2010. Microliter-bioreactor array with buoyancy-driven stirring for human hematopietic stem cell culture, Biomicrofluidics, 4 (3).
Flow optimization study of a batch microfluidics PET tracer synthesizing device
Arkadij M. Elizarov & Carl Meinhart & Reza Miraghaie, R. Michael van Dam & Jiang Huang & Antoine Daridon, James R. Heath & Hartmuth C. Kolb. 2011. Flow optimization study of a batch microfluidics PET tracer synthesizing device. Biomed. Microdevices, 13(1):231-42.