Investigation of the convective motion through a staggered herringbone micromixer at low Reynolds number flow

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2977-2985

  Hassell, D G ^a   Zimmerman, W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; Laminar flow; Micromixer; Mixing; Modelling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOPOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

BULK CHANNEL; FLUID ENTRAINMENT; MODELING; STAGGERED HERRINGBONE MICROMIXER (SHM);

HEAT CONVECTION;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TOPOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33244478998     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.10.068     Document Type: Article

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