Introduction: Mixing in microfluidics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1818, 2004, Pages 923-935

  Ottino, Julio M ^a   Wiggins, Stephen ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chaos; Diffusion; Fluid mechanics; Microfluidics; Mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442527454     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1355     Document Type: Review

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