Modeling of electrokinetically driven flow mixing enhancement in microchannels with patterned heterogeneous surface and blocks

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Wang, Dinan ^a,b   Summers, Jonathan ^a   Gaskell, P H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrokinetic flow; Lattice Boltzmann; Microchannels; Mixing enchancement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MICROFLUIDICS; PECLET NUMBER; SURFACE TREATMENT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

BULK FLOW; ELECTROKINETIC FLOW; EXTERNAL VOLTAGE; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD (LBM); MICROFLUIDIC; MIXING ENCHANCEMENT;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 34250175778     PISSN: 15567265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15567260701332770     Document Type: Article

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