Design and test of a passive planar labyrinth micromixer for rapid fluid mixing

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 174, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-132

  Li, Peng ^a   Cogswell, Jeremy ^b   Faghri, Mohammad ^b  

^a Rheonix Inc   (United States)

^b The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Dean flow; Lab on a chip; Micromixing

Indexed keywords

CURVED CHANNELS; DEAN FLOW; DESIGN AND TESTS; FLUID MIXING; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICRO MIXERS; MICRO-MIXING; MIXING LENGTH; MIXING UNITS; MULTIPLE FLUIDS; PASSIVE MIXING; PLANAR STRUCTURE; S-SHAPED; SPLIT-AND-RECOMBINE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEIONIZED WATER; DESIGN; LITHOGRAPHY; MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 84868142457     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.08.031     Document Type: Article

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