Investigation of the staggered herringbone mixer with a simple analytical model

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

Volumn 362, Issue 1818, 2004, Pages 971-986

  Stroock, Abraham D ^a   McGraw, Gregory J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaotic advection; Dispersion; Microchemical; Microfluidics; Mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442596887     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1357     Document Type: Article

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