Free radical polymerization in multilaminated microreactors: 2D and 3D multiphysics CFD modeling

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 451-461

  Serra, Christophe ^a   Schlatter, Guy ^a   Sary, Nicolas ^a   Schönfeld, Friedhelm ^b   Hadziioannou, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free radical polymerization; Microreactor; Modeling; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROREACTOR; MULTIPHYSICS; STYRENE FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 34347398135     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-006-0130-7     Document Type: Article

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