Capabilities and limitations of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional numerical methods in modeling the fluid flow in sudden expansion microchannels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-18

  Tsai, Chien Hsiung ^a   Chen, Han Taw ^b   Wang, Yao Nan ^b   Lin, Che Hsin ^c   Fu, Lung Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flow separation vortex; Reynolds numbers; Sudden expansion microchannel

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW SEPARATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; REYNOLDS EQUATION; VORTEX FLOW;

EXPANSION MICROCHANNEL; FLOW SEPARATION VORTEX; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 33947637219     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-006-0099-2     Document Type: Article

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