Serpentine microfluidic mixer made in LTCC

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 400-413

  Malecha, Karol ^a   Golonka, Leszek J ^a   Bałdyga, Jerzy ^b   Jasińska, Magdalena ^b   Sobieszuk, Paweł ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

CFD; Chaotic advection; LTCC; Micromixer; Mixing efficiency; Mixing sensitive reactions

Indexed keywords

2-NAPHTHOLS; CFD MODELLING; CFD SIMULATIONS; CHAOTIC ADVECTION; FLOW CONDITION; FLUID FLOW; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; LOW TEMPERATURE CO-FIRED CERAMICS; MICRO DEVICES; MICRO MIXERS; MICRO REACTOR; MICRO-MIXING; MICRO-SCALES; MICROFLUIDIC MIXERS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MIXING-SENSITIVE REACTIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; SENSITIVE SYSTEMS; TEST REACTIONS;

ADVECTION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LAMINAR FLOW; MIXERS (MACHINERY); SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MIXING;

EID: 71849088939     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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