Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6822
Full metadata record
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Sarkar, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Narváez, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Harting, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | 3rd Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2011) | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-01T09:27:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-01T09:27:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | 3rd Micro and Nano Flows Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 22-24 August 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-902316-98-7 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6822 | - |
dc.description | This paper was presented at the 3rd Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2011), which was held at the Makedonia Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki in Greece. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Italian Union of Thermofluiddynamics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Thessaly, IPEM, the Process Intensification Network, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Heat Transfer Society, HEXAG - the Heat Exchange Action Group, and the Energy Institute. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Due to the lack of turbulence in micromixers diffusion is the main process contributing to microfluidic mixing. Especially mixing of uids with low diffusivity is a difficult task. The recently discovered mechanism of "chaotic-advection" enhances the diffusion process by stretching and folding the fluid interfaces in order to provide a larger interface. Certain passive micromixers like the staggered herringbone mixer (SHM) apply this concept and succeed in enhancing the mixing process considerably. The optimization of such micromixers is a time consuming and often expensive process. We demonstrate that the application of the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method to study advection and diffusion processes can be an efficient tool to optimize micromixers. By combining finite time Lyapunov exponents to study chaotic advection and Danckwert's intensity of segregation to study the diffusion, we demonstrate how optimal geometrical parameters for the SHM can be found and how diffusion is improved by the complex ow pattern inside the mixer. The current article provides a review of our results published in [1] together with additional studies on modelling diffusive mixing with the LB method. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was financed within the DFG priority program "nano- and microfluidics", the DFG collaborative research center 716, and by the NWO/STW VIDI grant of J. Harting. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brunel University | en_US |
dc.title | Numerical optimization of passive chaotic micromixers | en_US |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Institute for Bioengineering (BIB) The Brunel Collection |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
MNF2011.pdf | 1.59 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Items in BURA are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.