Formation of recirculation zones in a sudden expansion microchannel with a rectangular block structure over a wide Reynolds number range

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 213-220

  Tsai, Chien Hsiung ^a   Yeh, Cheng Peng ^b   Lin, Che Hsin ^c   Yang, Ruey Jen ^b   Fu, Lung Ming ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flow separation vortex; Microfluidics; Sudden expansion microchannel

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW PATTERN MAP; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; RECIRCULATION ZONES; RECTANGULAR BLOCK; REYNOLDS; SEPARATION VORTEX; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SUDDEN EXPANSION;

EXPANSION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84856210965     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0864-8     Document Type: Article

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