Fluids mixing in devices with connected-groove channels

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1871-1881

  Yang, Jing Tang ^a   Fang, Wei Feng ^a   Tung, Kai Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confocal microscope; Microfluidics; Micromixer; Mixing device; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYES; MICROFLUIDICS; VISCOSITY;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; MICROMIXER; MIXING DEVICE;

MIXING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYES; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 40849123849     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.12.027     Document Type: Article

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