An overlapping crisscross micromixer

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 711-720

  Wang, Lilin ^a   Yang, Jing Tang ^a   Lyu, Ping Chiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fluid mechanics; Microfluidics; Micromixer; Mixing; Numerical analysis; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUIDICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXING;

MICROFLUIDICS; MICROMIXERS;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUIDICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING;

EID: 33845422107     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.09.048     Document Type: Article

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