An electrokinetic mixer driven by oscillatory cross flow

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-118

  Phelan Jr , Frederick R ^a   Kutty, Prasad ^a   Pathak, Jai A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaotic mixing; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Degree of mixing; Electroosmotic flow (EOF); Hamiltonian chaos; Lyapunov exponent; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFINED FLOW; DIFFUSION; FLOW RATE; FLUIDIC DEVICES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STROUHAL NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW;

CHAOTIC MIXING; ELECTROKINETIC MIXER; OSCILLATORY CROSS FLOW;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 44249085897     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-007-0231-y     Document Type: Article

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