Early induction of secondary vortices for micromixing enhancement

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-99

  Gigras, Ankur ^a   Pushpavanam, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Deans vortices; Micromixer design; Reynolds number; Secondary vortices

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION; FLOW VELOCITY; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MICROMIXING; SECONDARY VORTEX GENERATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 44249105904     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-007-0230-z     Document Type: Article

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