Crosswise ridge micromixers with split and recombination helical flows

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2164-2176

  Jian Chen, Jyh ^a   Ren Lai, Yu ^b   Tang Tsai, Rei ^c   Der Lin, Jenn ^d   Yang Wu, Chih ^c  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confocal image; Helical flows; Mixing index; Passive micromixer; Slanted ridge; Split and recombination

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL IMAGE; HELICAL FLOWS; MIXING INDEX; PASSIVE MICROMIXER; SLANTED RIDGE; SPLIT AND RECOMBINATION;

FLOORS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXERS (MACHINERY); REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MIXING;

EID: 79953041921     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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