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Meander Designer

This page provides the Meander Designer: a tool allowing microfluidic designers to automatically generate meander designs for their specific needs and constraints. Therefore, the designer only has to provide respectively given/desired values such as the desired resistance, the viscosity of the used phase, the desired width/height ratio of the meander boundary, the channel width and height, etc. Furthermore, it is possible to employ an (optional) correction factor in form of a constant or first order function. Based on these inputs, the tool generates a meander design in a fully-automated fashion. The generated output includes both, the desired meander design as a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file as well as corresponding logs e.g. about the resulting channel length, channel volume, etc. which serves as a documentation of the generated meander.

Details of the approach are summarized in the paper entitled "Meander Designer: Automatically Generating Meander Channel Designs".

In case of questions/problems, please contact us through microfluidics.cda@xcit.tum.de.

More on our work on microfluidics is summarized in this page.

How to cite

If you use the tool for your research, we would be thankful if you referred to it by citing the following publication:

@article{grimmer2018meander,
  title        = {Meander Designer: Automatically Generating Meander Channel Designs},
  author       = {Grimmer, Andreas and Frank, Philipp and Ebner, Philipp and Häfner, Sebastian and Richter, Andreas and Wille, Robert},
  journal      = {Micromachines},
  volume       = {9},
  number       = {12},
  pages        = {625},
  year         = {2018},
}

This work is part of the Munich Microfluidics Toolkit, described in the following paper:

@INPROCEEDINGS{iccad_2025_mmft,
  AUTHOR        = {R. Wille and P. Ebner and M. Emmerich and M. Takken},
  TITLE         = {{The Munich Microfluidics Toolkit: Design Automation and Simulation Tools for Microfluidic Devices}},
  BOOKTITLE     = {International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)},
  YEAR          = {2025},
  ADDENDUM      = {A overview of the toolkit is available at \url{https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/research/microfluidics/mmft/}},
}