Fast Methods for Particle Dynamics in Dielectrophoretic Biochips
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This paper introduces a Schur-complement based boundary element method (BEM) for predicting the motion of arbitrarily shaped three-dimensional particles under combined external and fluidic force fields. The BEM approach presented here relies entirely on modeling the surface of the computational domain, significantly reducing the number of unknowns when compared to volume-based methods. In addition, the Schur complement based scheme leads to a huge reduction in solution time during timestepping in the microfluidic domain. Parallelized oct-tree based O(N) multilevel iterative solvers are used to accelerate the setup and solution costs.
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