Characterization of laminar transient flow regimes and mixing in t-shaped micromixers

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 91-100

  Dreher, Simon ^a   Kockmann, Norbert ^a   Woias, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXERS (MACHINERY); OPTICAL FILTERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHENIUM; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

CFD SIMULATIONS; CHEMICAL-; CURVED CHANNELS; DESIGN CRITERION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW REGIMES; LIQUID MEDIUMS; MICRO-MIXERS; MIXING CHANNELS; MIXING DEVICES; MIXING QUALITY; MIXING TIMES; PERIODIC BEHAVIOR; PERIODIC FLOWS; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; REYNOLDS; STROBOSCOPIC IMAGING; T-SHAPED; TEST REACTIONS; TRANSIENT FLOWS; WAKE FLOWS;

MIXING;

EID: 52949142325     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630802293480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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