Mixing patterns in water plugs during water/ionic liquid segmented flow in microchannels

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 80, Issue , 2012, Pages 334-341

  Dore, Valentina ^a   Tsaoulidis, Dimitrios ^a   Angeli, Panagiota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionic liquids; Liquid liquid; Microfluidics; Mixing; Multiphase flow; PIV

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LOCATIONS; CARRIER FLUIDS; CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CIRCULATION TIME; CIRCULATION VELOCITY; LIQUID-LIQUIDS; LIQUID/LIQUID INTERFACE; MICRO PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; MINIMUM VALUE; MIXING CHARACTERISTICS; MIXING RATES; MIXTURE VELOCITY; PIV; SECONDARY VORTEX; SEGMENTED FLOW; T JUNCTIONS; VORTEX CORES;

EXPERIMENTS; IONIC LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXTURES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

MIXING;

EID: 84863828090     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.06.030     Document Type: Article

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