Bilayer staggered herringbone micro-mixers with symmetric and asymmetric geometries

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-286

  Choudhary, Rahul ^a   Bhakat, Tamalika ^a   Singh, Rajeev Kumar ^a   Ghubade, Anil ^a   Mandal, Swarnasri ^a   Ghosh, Arnab ^a   Rammohan, Amritha ^a   Sharma, Ashutosh ^a   Bhattacharya, Shantanu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Bilayer; Micro replication by double inversion (MRDI); Microfabrication; Micromixer; Micromixing; Staggered herringbones

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BILAYER; MICRO MIXERS; MICRO-MIXING; MICRO-REPLICATION BY DOUBLE INVERSION (MRDI); STAGGERED HERRINGBONES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROANALYSIS; MICROFABRICATION; MICROMACHINING; MIXERS (MACHINERY);

MIXING;

EID: 79551484923     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0667-3     Document Type: Article

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