Multi-Disciplinary Simulation of Piezoelectric Driven Microfluidic Inkjet
Piezoelectric inkjet technology is critical to documentation, graphic arts and manufacturing applications. Physical modeling plays an essential role in the development of this technology. In this paper, we present a comprehensive, multi-level, inter-disciplinary simulation approach for piezoelectric inkjet design. This includes a high-fidelity, inter-disciplinary detailed simulation method for architecture investigation, and a much faster reduced-order modeling approach that enables interactive design of voltage waveforms. Simulation results are compared with experimental data. The multi-level inter-disciplinary simulation methodology presented here can be applied to designing MEMS and microfluidic devices and systems [1].