Geometric effects on fluid mixing in passive grooved micromixers

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1140-1147

  Yang, Jing Tang ^a   Huang, Ker Jer ^a   Lin, Yu Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FLOW KINETICS; GEOMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROMIXER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 26844454888     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b500972c     Document Type: Article

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