Simulation of Helical Flows in Microchannels

AIChE Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 771-778

  Schönfeld, Friedhelm ^a   Hardt, Steffen ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bas relief structure; Computational fluid dynamics; Helical flow; Microchannel; Micromixing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; VORTEX FLOW;

HELICAL FLOWS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROMIXING; TRANSVERSE FLOW;

FLUID MECHANICS;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIXING; MODEL; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 1942533424     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10071     Document Type: Article

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