Approach for maximizing chaotic mixing in microfluidic devices

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Balasuriya, Sanjeeva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HAMILTONIANS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

CHAOTIC MIXING; CROSS-CHANNEL MICROMIXERS; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES;

FLUIDIC DEVICES;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 30044446637     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2042507     Document Type: Article

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