Serpentine Micromixers Using Extensional Mixing Elements.

George Tomaras, Chandrasekhar R Kothapalli, Petru S Fodor

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Article in Micromachines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

A Flexible Kenics Mixer for Applications in Liquid Chromatography.Micromachines · 2023
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3 authors.

George TomarasDepartment of Physics, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44236, USA.

Chandrasekhar R KothapalliDepartment of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44236, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8450-0640

Petru S FodorDepartment of Physics, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44236, USA.

Funding

Cleveland State University Undergraduate Summer Research Award 2022 and the Graduate Faculty Research Award 2022

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational fluid dynamics modeling was used to characterize the effect of the integration of constrictions defined by the vertices of hyperbolas on the flow structure in microfluidic serpentine channels. In the new topology, the Dean flows characteristic of the pressure-driven fluid motion along curved channels are combined with elongational flows and asymmetric longitudinal eddies that develop in the constriction region. The resulting complex flow structure is characterized by folding and stretching of the fluid volumes, which can promote enhanced mixing. Optimization of the geometrical parameters defining the constriction region allows for the development of an efficient micromixer topology that shows robust enhanced performance across a broad range of Reynolds numbers from

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Dean flows and mixerselongational flowhyperbolic constrictionsmixing indexpassive micromixersserpentine channelsstretching flow

Identifiers

PMID36296138

DOI10.3390/mi13101785

PMCPMC9611290

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