Microfluidics continues to bring innovation to the life sciences. It stimulates progress by
enabling new ways of research in biology, chemistry, and biotechnology. However, when designing
a microfluidic device, designers have to conduct many tasks by hand?resulting in labor-intensive
processes. In particular, when drawing the design of the device, designers have to handle re-occurring
entities. Meander channels are one example, which are frequently used in different platforms but
always have to fit the respective application and design rules. This work presents an online tool
which is capable of automatically generating user-defined, two-dimensional designs of fluidic meander
channels facilitating fluidic hydrodynamic resistances. The tool implements specific design rules
as it considers the user?s needs and fabrication requirements. The compliance of the meanders
generated by the proposed tool is confirmed by fabricating the generated designs and comparing
whether the resulting devices indeed realize the desired specification. To this end, two case studies
are considered: first, the realization of dedicated fluidic resistances and, second, the realization
of dedicated mixing ratios of fluids. The results demonstrate the versatility of the tool regarding
application and technology. Overall, the freely accessible tool with its flexibility and simplicity
renders manual drawing of meanders obsolete and, hence, allows for a faster, more straightforward
design process.
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