Often, mathematical modeling is considered a luxury in the product development cycle, or even off critical-path. At Beta Innovations we consider modeling to be a valuable tool during product development for:
- evaluating the performance of design concepts,
- validating optimal prototype designs,
- identifying key performance parameters,
- exploring product performance data, and
- reducing the number of physical prototypes that need to be built and tested.
Our modeling expertise is in the areas of:
- fluidics
- heat transfer
- chemical kinetics
- electrokinetic phenomena
These phenomena may be modeled individually or coupled together. COMSOL is a versatile and powerful simulation package that is used to model and couple multiple physics problems.
Examples:
Mathematical modeling has been used to benefit the following development efforts:
- Effects of packaging materials on the storage stability of food products.
- Significance of ion depletion zones in the performance of a novel electrophoretic separation.
- Fluidics evaluation of a dispensing system for manufacturing a lab-on-a-chip device.
- Optimal design and operating parameters of a mixing device by modeling the motion of a free surface on a rocker mechanism.
- Flow profiles in a single-fluid nozzle design.
- Creating balanced flow profiles in a microfluidic electrophoresis device.
- Impact of design variations on the flow patterns of a miniaturized immunoblot assay
- Thermal profiles around heaters in an incubator system.
- Current densities around charged, magnetic particles
- Sample injector design in a flow cytometer-type application