Designing for chaos: Applications of chaotic advection at the microscale

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

Volumn 362, Issue 1818, 2004, Pages 1019-1036

  Stremler, Mark A ^a   Haselton, F R ^a   Aref, Hassan ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Chaotic advection; Micro electrical mechanical systems (MEMS); Microfluidics; Mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442542087     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1360     Document Type: Article

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