Mixing characteristics of T-type microfluidic mixers

By D. Gobby, P. Angeli, A. Gavriilidis. 2001

359 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Kwang‐Yong Kim
2. Wanjun Wang
3. S. Soper
4. M. A. Ansari
5. J. Aubin
6. Sun Min Kim
7. Khalid Anwar
8. X. Niu

In Computational Mechanics

1. Kwang‐Yong Kim
2. M. A. Ansari
3. Wanjun Wang
4. S. Soper
5. Sun Min Kim
6. Khalid Anwar
7. C. Xuereb
8. Dieter Bothe

Citations in the corpus

• Bio-MEMS : Technologies and Applications (2006, background): “Such efforts involve understanding of fundamentals related to the process, such as polymer flow behavior [12–20]; developing new and optimal material systems applicable to the NIL process [21,22]; overcoming the overlay issue [23,24]; fabricating reliable stamps with sub–100 nm features [25–28]; imp”
• Efficient spatial-temporal chaotic mixing in microchannels (2003, methodology): “To achieve a faster mixing, several passive micromixers have been developed and studied, such as the T-type [3], L-shaped [6], serpentine pipe [8], flow splitting [9] and so on.”
• Micromixers—a review (2005, neutral): “02 150 PMMA [26] Yi 2003 Y-mixer 200 200 50–200 80 80 000 Ceramic [27] Wong 2004 T-mixer 100 50 7000 500 70 0000 Silicon–glass [29] Böhm 2001 Vortex 20 200 10000 200 200 000 Silicon–glass [30] Wong 2003 Cross-shaped 30 40 5000–10 000 170–340 150 000 Ceramic [31] Gobby 2001 T-mixer 500 300 0.”
• Fluid mixing in a T-shaped micro-mixer (2006, background): “Related studies for the mixing behaviour in T-shaped micro-mixers are, e.g., Gobby et al., 2001 and Wong et al., 2004.”
• Effect of microchannel aspect ratio on residence time distributions and the axial dispersion coefficient (2009, methodology): “[16] investigated the effects of aspect ratio on mixing of gases in T-micromixers using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).”
• Numerical and experimental investigations of liquid mixing in T-type micromixers (2008, background): “One explanation is that the mixing of the gas phase n the range of Reynolds numbers studied in [6] is ensured by olecular diffusion.”
• Optimizing layout of obstacles for enhanced mixing in microchannels (2002, background): “investigated the aspect ratio with constant width [15], and we extend this investigation to a constrained area.”
• A novel passive micromixer based on unbalanced splits and collisions of fluid streams (2010, background): “The direct collision [20, 23] and the cross-collision [21, 22] of fluid streams in a microchannel with a uniform width do not alter the interface between the fluids over which mixing takes place.”
• Micromixers—a review on passive and active mixing principles (2005, background): “Bi-lamination can be achieved in T- and Y-flow structures (Bökenkamp et al., 1998; Gobby et al., 2001), in their outer shape similar to conventional mixing tees.”