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Viability Of A Controllable Chaotic Micromixer Through The Use Of Titanium-Nickel Shape Memory Alloy, David Ryan Lilly
Viability Of A Controllable Chaotic Micromixer Through The Use Of Titanium-Nickel Shape Memory Alloy, David Ryan Lilly
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Microfluidic devices have found applications in a number of areas, such as medical analysis, chemical synthesis, biological study, and drug delivery. Because of the small channel dimensions used in these systems, most microchannels exhibit laminar flow due to their low Reynold’s number, making mixing of fluids very challenging. Mixing at this size scale is diffusion-limited, so inducing chaotic flow patterns can increase the interface surface area between two fluids, thereby decreasing overall mixing time.
One method to create a chaotic flow within the channel is through the introduction of internal protrusions into the channel. In such an application protrusions that …