Quantification of inertial droplet collision mixing rates in confined microchannel flows using differential fluorescence measurements

ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels Collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, ICNMM2010

Volumn , Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 1273-1283

  Carroll, Brian ^a   Hidrovo, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE METHOD; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CHAOTIC ADVECTION; COLLISION PROCESS; COLLISION ZONE; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DISCRETE DROPLETS; DROPLET COLLISION; DROPLET INTERACTION; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; FRAME RATE; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICRO MIXERS; MICRO TOTAL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS; MICRO-SCALES; MICROCHANNEL FLOW; MIXING PERFORMANCE; MIXING RATES; MIXING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PASSIVE TECHNIQUE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RELATIVE VELOCITY; SHEAR THINNING; T JUNCTIONS; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

ASPECT RATIO; DROPS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; MODELS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84856013591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/FEDSM-ICNMM2010-30667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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