Analysis of flow and mixing characteristics of planar asymmetric split-and-recombine (P-SAR) micromixers with fan-shaped cavities

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7816-7827

  Xia, Guodong ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Tian, Xinping ^a   Zhou, Mingzheng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY CHANNELS; CAVITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; DEAN VORTEX; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FLOW FEATURES; FLUID STREAMS; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MICRO MIXERS; MIXING CHARACTERISTICS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MIXING INDEX; MIXING PERFORMANCE; MIXING QUALITY; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SPLIT-AND-RECOMBINE; SUBCHANNELS; VERTICAL PLANE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); QUALITY CONTROL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

MIXING;

EID: 84861850994     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie2026234     Document Type: Article

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