Passive mixing in a three-dimensional serpentine microchannel

By Robin H. Liu, M. Stremler, Kendra V. Sharp, M. Olsen, Juan G. Santiago, Ronald J. Adrian, Hassan Aref, D. Beebe. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2000

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering

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Laminar mixing, heat transfer and pressure drop in tree-like microchannel nets and their application for thermal management in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (2004, methodology): “by placing ridges on the floor of the channels at an oblique angle [39] or by inserting C-shaped repeating units in the streamwise direction [40].”
Current methods for characterising mixing and flow in microchannels (2010, methodology): “The mixing performance in various designs of split-and-recombine and chaotic micromixers has been assessed by contacting water or ethanol solutions of phenolphthalein and sodium hydroxide (Liu et al., 2000; Kim et al., 2004; Cha et al., 2006; Lee et al., 2006).”
A Review on Mixing in Microfluidics (2010, background): “[24]; see Figure 13.”
Design of micromixers using CFD modelling (2005, methodology): “…the mixer performance using various experimental techniques, such as fluorescent microscopy and special chemical reactions, as well as CFD simulations to trace particle trajectories (Beebe et al., 2001; Bertsch et al., 2001; Ehrfeld et al., 1999; Lui et al., 2000; Stroock et al., 2002a, 2002b).”
Efficient spatial-temporal chaotic mixing in microchannels (2003, methodology): “It is interesting to note that this spatial-temporal chaotic mixer can have similar Poincar´ es ections with some spatial serpentine devices [ 8 ] by a suitable mapping.”
Induced-charge electro-osmosis (2003, background): “Chaotic advection (Aref 1984) provides a promising strategy for mixing in Stokes flows, and various techniques for creating chaotic streamlines have been introduced (e.g. Liu et al. 2000; Stroock et al. 2002).”
Direct, one-step molding of 3D-printed structures for convenient fabrication of truly 3D PDMS microfluidic chips (2015, background): “2003) and 3D chaotic advective mixer (Liu et al. 2000; Chen and Meiners 2004; Conlisk and O’Connor 2012).”