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Effect of geometry on fluid mixing of the rhombic micromixers

Chung et al., 2008

Document ID
11902071576836680582
Author
Chung C
Shih T
Publication year
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Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

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A planar micromixer with rhombic microchannels and a converging-diverging element has been proposed for its effective mixing. Both CFD-ACE numerical simulations and experiments were used to design and investigate the effect of three parameters (number of …
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