Bifurcating channels supplying "numbered-up" microreactors

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2507-2520

  Tesař, Václav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THERMOMECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Branched channels; Geometric self similarity; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED CHANNELS; BRANCHING CHANNELS; BRANCHING PATTERNS; CHEMICAL MICROREACTORS; CHIP SURFACES; CROSS-SECTION AREA; FRACTAL OBJECTS; FRACTAL THEORY; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; ISOTROPIC ETCHING; MICRO REACTOR; SELF-SIMILAR PATTERNS; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SURFACE AREA;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FRACTALS; MICROFLUIDICS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 82855178838     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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