On the modelling of time-interleaved sequential lamination micromixers

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 175-187

  Garofalo, F ^a   Giona, M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advection diffusion operator; Dispersion; Micromixers; Mixing; Sequential segmentation; Time interleaved lamination

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION; AXIAL COORDINATES; CHANNEL WALL; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; EFFECTIVE DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; LENGTH SCALE; MICRO-FLUID; MICROMIXERS; NANO-FLUID; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PARALLEL LAMINATION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; SEQUENTIAL SEGMENTATION; TAYLOR-ARIS DISPERSION; THEORETICAL MODELS; TIME-INTERLEAVED; UNIFORM STRUCTURE; VELOCITY PROFILES;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING;

LAMINATING;

EID: 84856227190     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0861-y     Document Type: Article

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