The Munich Microfluidics Toolkit (MMFT) is a collection of design automation and simulation tools for microfluidics developed at the Chair for Design Automation at the Technical University of Munich. This toolkit is still in development and subject to frequent changes.
Design Automation
Meander Designer
Designers frequently draw similar designs for meander channels in a CAD program like AutoCAD. In order to overcome this manual task, we developed this online tool, which allows to automatically generate meander designs with their needs and fabrication settings.
Channel Router
The Channel Router is a tool that lets the user design a routing layout for channel-based microfluidic devices that need to connect multiple parts in a certain way. In particular, it ensures that certain design constraints, such as the distance between channels and corner bend radius, are satisfied.
Gradient Generator
The Gradient Generator allows users to automatically create designs for tree-shaped concentration gradient generators. Such devices are used to mix two fluids with different concentration values and provide various mixtures of these fluids (i.e., mixtures with certain concentration values) at corresponding outlets.
Organs-on-Chip Designer
The Organs-on-Chip Designer is a tool that generates an initial organs-on-chip design by considering several aspects, like the size of organ modules, the required shear stress on membranes, the dimensions and geometry of channels, pump pressures, etc. From this, a 3D geometry of the microfluidic channel network for subsequent simulations or the desired device, including the chip specifications for fabrication, can be generated.
ISO Designer
The MMFT ISO Designer is a tool that validates and generates microfluidic chip designs following the ISO 22916 standard. It is able to place and route basic modules and channels while validating a number of geometric constraints.
Simulation
Hybrid Simulator
The hybrid simulator exploits the 1D model to accelerate CFD simulations of microfluidic devices without loss of accuracy. This tool allows interested researchers to efficiently simulate large microfluidic networks that include components which must be simulated using a CFD method.
Droplet Simulator
This simulator exploits the 1D model to simulate two-phase Lab-on-a-Chip devices, i.e., droplets and their paths inside closed micro-channels. Therefore, its goal is to overcome the "trial-and-error" design approach by means of sophisticated simulation methods. An online version of the tool allows interested researchers and designers to quickly try the proposed simulation methods.
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.