Swirl mixing at microfluidic junctions due to low frequency side channel fluidic perturbations

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 811-818

  Neild, Adrian ^a   Ng, Tuck Wah ^a   Sheard, Gregory J ^a   Powers, Matthew ^a   Oberti, Stefano ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Mixing; Swirl

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CONFINED SPACE; FLOW STREAMS; IMAGE BLURRING; LOW FREQUENCY; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; SHORT LENGTHS; SIDE-CHANNEL; SWIRL;

BLENDING; MICROFLUIDICS;

HYDRAULICS;

EID: 77958480453     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2010.08.027     Document Type: Article

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