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-===== Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems =====
+===== Microelectromechanical systems =====
 === Background ===
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 when the actuator moves.
 The difficulty was to keep an acceptable aspect ratio of the deformed mesh elements, which was of course critical between the plate and electrode.
-It also had to couple the different programs needed to make the coupled simulations:
+I also had to couple the different programs needed to make the coupled simulations:
-  * a fluid dynamic finite volume parallel software written in C by Didier Vigneron;
+  * a fluid dynamic finite volume software written in C by Didier Vigneron, parallelized with MPI (distributed memory);
   * a mechanical finite element software, OOfelie, written in C++ by [[http://www.open-engineering.com/|Open Engineering]];
   * a C++ code of my own, which calculated the electrostatic force and the mesh deformation.
 An external script called the different codes in turn and converted the input/output files to ensure data compatibility.
 Fig. 2 shows results of the electric simulation on a quarter of the plate.
-Electromechanical simulations were performed at different excitation frequencies (Fig. 3, left) and a full electromechanical-fluid simulation was made at the resonance frequency.
+Electromechanical simulations were performed at different excitation frequencies (Fig. 3, left) and a full electromechanical-fluid simulation was made at the resonance frequency (Fig. 3, right).
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-//Figure 2. Electric scalar potential and electric force acting on the plate, calculated with my own code and visualized with [[http://www.geuz.org/gmsh|Gmsh]].//
+//Figure 2. Electric scalar potential and electric force acting on the plate, calculated with my own code (mesh and visualization with [[http://www.geuz.org/gmsh|Gmsh]]).//
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 //Figure 3. Vertical displacement of the plate : (left), electromechanical simulation (OOfelie+my code) for an excitation frequency equal to  $0.5\,\nu_r$ ,  $\nu_r$  and  $2\,\nu_r$ , where  $\nu_r$  is the resonance frequency; (right), electromechanical simulation with/without fluid coupling (OOfelie+my code+Didier Vigneron's code) at the resonance frequency.//
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