Design and fabrication of an advanced rhombic micromixer with branch channels

NEMS 2011 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 245-248

  Chang, C K ^a   Shih, T R ^a   Chung, C K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Branch channels; Pressure drop; Rhombic micromixer

Indexed keywords

3-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; BRANCH CHANNELS; CFD-ACE+; CHEMICAL PRODUCTION; CHIP FABRICATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; LOWER PRESSURES; MICRO MIXERS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MOLDING PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; MICROCHANNELS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; PRESSURE DROP; RHENIUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THROUGHPUT;

DESIGN;

EID: 80053314590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NEMS.2011.6017340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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