A Review of Pressure Drop and Mixing Characteristics in Passive Mixers Involving Miscible Liquids

A Ganguli, V Bhatt, A Yagodnitsyna, D Pinjari, A Pandit - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
The present review focuses on the recent studies carried out in passive micromixers for
understanding the hydrodynamics and transport phenomena of miscible liquid–liquid (LL) …

Mixing performance improvement of T-shaped micromixer using novel structural design of channel and obstacles

T Tajik Ghanbari, M Rahimi, AA Ranjbar, Y Pahamli… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Micromixers play a crucial role in mixing different fluids within microfluidic systems.
Therefore, it is essential to analyze parameters, such as dimensional characteristics, mixing …

Tesla valve-based flexible microhybrid chip with unidirectional flow properties

J Wang, B Cui, H Liu, X Chen, Y Li, R Wang, T Lang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Flexible microfluidic chips have good application prospects in situations with easy bending
and complex curvature. An important factor affecting the flexible microfluidic chip is its …

Parametric study on the influence of varying angled inlet channels on mixing performance in simple T micromixers and vortex T micromixers across a wide range of …

K Rasheed, MA Ansari, S Alam, MN Khan… - Microfluidics and …, 2024 - Springer
Micromixers become the core elements of lab-on-chip (LOC) devices used for mixing fluid
samples at a very small scale. For modest Reynolds numbers, the nature of fluid movement …

Topology-optimized micromixer design with enhanced reverse flow to increase mixing efficiency

Q Fu, Z Liu, S Cao, Z Wang, G Liu - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this work, a serpentine mixing unit model based on topology optimization is proposed to
enhance the reverse flow in both horizontal and vertical directions. The increase in reverse …

Insights into the breaking and dynamic mixing of microemulsion (W/O) in the T-junction microchannel

Q Yu, X Chen - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper we conduct a numerical simulation study of droplet generation and dynamic
mixing in T-junction microchannels to investigate the effects of two-phase flow rate, viscosity …

Exploring gradual material rigidity degradation effects on the nonlinear coupled axial-transversal nonlinear response of a capacitive micro-beam

M Asadi, G Rezazadeh, VV Sinitsin - European Journal of Mechanics-A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The accumulation of damage in materials due to crack propagation can lead them to
unpredicted failures. This phenomenon is particularly relevant in materials science …

Active mixing of two-component viscoelastic silicone ink at molecular level for spatiotemporally controlled 3D/4D printing of cellular silicones

E Liao, Y Zhang, Y Su, C Zhang, C Geng, C Li, X Liu… - Polymer, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D printed silicones have demonstrated great potential in diverse areas such as
soft robots, tissue engineering, flexible sensors and energy dissipation. However, most …

Three-objective optimization of micromixer with Cantor fractal structure based on Pareto genetic algorithm

M Su, J Yuan, L Yang, X Chen - International Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - degruyter.com
This paper introduces the multi-objective optimization process of the micromixer with Cantor
fractal baffle. The combination of fractal principle and multi-objective optimization is a main …