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Chaotic Mixing in Helical Microchannels

Experiments were conducted in electroosmotic flow (EOF) with 0.005≤Re ≤ 0.039 on mixing enhancement in 3-D helical microchannels. Both inlet velocity and concentration distribution along the flow channel were measurement via £gPIV and £gLIF technique respectively. The experimental results showed that the helical channels can generate nearly fully chaotic flow and achieve the complete mixing in a relatively short channel with three different helical channels (3, 4, and 6 inlet channels), and the four-inlet channel found to have the best mixing efficiency. Finally, the mixing length was correlated into a form of £f/Dh = 2.8Pe0.35 within ¡Ó8% accuracy between the experiments and prediction.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0826109-113215
Date26 August 2009
CreatorsSu, Kao-Chun
ContributorsChin-Chia Su, Ching-Jenq Ho, Shou-Shin Hsieh
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0826109-113215
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