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Potel, Mike, Kai Kang, Chevray, Rene |
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IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications; Nov/Dec2005, Vol. 25 Issue 6, p16-20, 5p |
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The article presents information on the visualization of fluid mixing in microchannels. The development of a microchannel for fluid-mixing applications comes from the recent interest in microfluidic device applications in biology. Microfluidics refers to fluid flow and transport phenomena associated with these devices. The basic idea of developing microfluidic devices is to shrink the physical dimensions of most commonly used processors using miniaturization and function integration to create the so-called lab on a chip. Using a microchannel as a mixer is attractive because it easily integrates with other microprocessing units. It is further reported in the article that to obtain fast mixing at a low flow speed, many researchers have proposed chaotic advection. Chaotic advection refers to complex or chaotic behavior of fluid particles' trajectories in a simple, low-speed flow. As the flow becomes chaotic, it also becomes effective in mixing and could produce turbulent-like mixing results at low flow speeds. |
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Complementary Index |
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