Design of microfluidic slug mixing based on the correlation between a dimensionless mixing rate and a modified Peclet number

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7386-7392

  Tanthapanichakoon, Wiroon ^a   Matsuyama, Kazuo ^a   Aoki, Nobuaki ^a   Mae, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFD simulation; Laminar flow; Mixing; Mixing enhancement by channel contraction; Modified Peclet number; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; LAMINAR FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

CHANNEL CONTRACTION; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; MIXING ENHANCEMENT; PECLET NUMBER;

MIXING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 33750459907     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.08.049     Document Type: Article

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