Novel micromixers driven by flow instabilities: Application to post-reactors

AIChE Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3193-3204

  Deshmukh, S R ^a   Vlachos, D G ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Bluff bodies; Hopf bifurcation; Micromixers; Microreactors; Oscillations; Von Karman vortex

Indexed keywords

BLUFF BODIES; HOPF BIFURCATION; MICROMIXERS; MICROREACTORS; VON KARMAN VORTEX;

MIXING; OSCILLATIONS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE REACTIONS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; INSTABILITY; MIXER;

EID: 30544431765     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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