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ArticleBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Bio-Inspired Flexible-Wall Squeezing Mixer with ALE-CFD-Based Actuation Optimization and Fluorescence-Imaging Assessment of Outlet Mixing Uniformity.

Wen Yuan, Zhihong Zhang

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Article in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Wen YuanFaculty of Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China.
Zhihong ZhangFaculty of Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai 201418, China.

Funding

Shanghai Pujiang Program 23PJ1411900
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Efficient mixing is a persistent bottleneck in agricultural and agrochemical processing, where rapid and uniform mixing must be achieved under laminar flow with low energy input and gentle shear. Inspired by peristaltic transport in biological systems, this study investigates a bio-inspired flexible-wall squeezing mixer and establishes a two-dimensional computational framework to quantify how periodic wall deformation governs scalar homogenization in a flexible conduit. An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian dynamic mesh approach is implemented to resolve moving boundaries and to prescribe actuation, enabling the systematic evaluation of the separate and coupled effects of peak wall-normal velocity amplitude

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bio-inspired laminar mixerdeformation-driven mixingflexible-wall actuationfluorescence-based outlet homogeneityresponse surface methodologytrend-level experimental corroborationtwo-dimensional ALE-CFD

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PMID42041514
PMCPMC13113079

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