Improving mixing efficiency of a polymer micromixer by use of a plastic shim divider

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Li, Lei ^a   Lee, L James ^a   Castro, Jose M ^a   Yi, Allen Y ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SOFTWARE; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; LOW COSTS; MANUFACTURING FLEXIBILITY; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MICRO MIXERS; MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING; MIXING COEFFICIENT; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MIXING EXPERIMENTS; MODIFIED DESIGNS; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; ORIGINAL DESIGN; POLYMER BASED; PROCESS CAPABILITIES; RE-DESIGNING; SIMULATION RESULT; STATIC MICRO-MIXER; ULTRAPRECISION MACHINING; ULTRAPRECISION MICROMACHINING;

COMMINUTION; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MIXING; MOLDING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 77749311307     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/20/3/035012     Document Type: Article

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