Static micromixers based on large-scale industrial mixer geometry

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 56-60

  Bertsch, Arnaud ^a   Heimgartner, Stephan ^a   Cousseau, Peter ^b   Renaud, Philippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Debiotech SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FOOD PROCESSING; LIQUID; MIXER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0002003927     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b103848f     Document Type: Article

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