Mixing in tangentially crossing microchannels

AIChE Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 571-580

  Lee, Denz ^a   Chen, Yu Tzu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chaotic mixing; Crossing channel; Micromixer

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC MIXING; CROSSING CHANNEL; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; IN-CHANNELS; INTERFACIAL AREAS; MICROMIXER; MICROMIXERS; MIXING BY DIFFUSION; SIMULATED PERFORMANCE; SPLIT-AND-RECOMBINE; STRIATION THICKNESS; STRUCTURAL SEQUENCES;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

MIXING;

EID: 79551707890     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12299     Document Type: Article

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