Passive Micromixers / / Mubashshir A., Arshad Afzal, Kwang-yŏng Kim.

• VerfasserIn: Mubashshir, A.,; Afzal, Arshad,; Kim, Kwang-yŏng,
• TeilnehmendeR: Afzal, Arshad,; Kim, Kwang-yŏng,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (174 pages)

Micro-total analysis systems and lab-on-a-chip platforms are widely used for sample preparation and analysis, drug delivery, and biological and chemical syntheses. A micromixer is an important component in these applications. Rapid and efficient mixing is a challenging task in the design and development of micromixers. The flow in micromixers is laminar, and, thus, the mixing is primarily dominated by diffusion. Recently, diverse techniques have been developed to promote mixing by enlarging the interfacial area between the fluids or by increasing the residential time of fluids in the micromixer. Based on their mixing mechanism, micromixers are classified into two types: active and passive. Passive micromixers are easy to fabricate and generally use geometry modification to cause chaotic advection or lamination to promote the mixing of the fluid samples, unlike active micromixers, which use moving parts or some external agitation/energy for the mixing. Many researchers have studied various geometries to design efficient passive micromixers. Recently, numerical optimization techniques based on computational fluid dynamic analysis have been proven to be efficient tools in the design of micromixers. The current Special Issue covers new mechanisms, design, numerical and/or experimental mixing analysis, and design optimization of various passive micromixers.

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editors . vii -- Arshad Afzal, Mubashshir A. Ansari and Kwang-Yong Kim Editorial for the Special Issue on Passive -- Micromixers Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 250, doi: 10.3390/mi9050250 . 1 -- Muhammad Usman Javaid, Taqi Ahmad Cheema and Cheol Woo Park Analysis of Passive Mixing in a Serpentine -- Microchannel with Sinusoidal Side Walls Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 8, doi: 10.3390/mi9010008 3 -- Joshua Clark, Miron Kaufman and Petru S. Fodor Mixing Enhancement in Serpentine Micromixers with a Non--- Rectangular Cross-Section Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 107, doi: 10.3390/mi9030107 . 18 -- Mubashshir Ahmad Ansari, Kwang-Yong Kim and Sun Min Kim Numerical and Experimental Study on Mixing -- Performances of Simple and Vortex Micro T-Mixers Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 204, doi: 10.3390/mi9050204 . 29 -- Dongyang Wang, Dechun Ba, Kun Liu, Ming Hao, Yang Gao, Zhiyong Wu and Qi Mei A Numerical Research of -- Herringbone Passive Mixer at Low Reynold Number Regime Reprinted from: Micromachines 2017, 8, 325, doi: 10.3390/mi8110325 . 43 -- Mahmut Burak Okuducu and Mustafa M. Aral Performance Analysis and Numerical Evaluation of Mixing in 3-D -- T-Shape Passive Micromixers Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 210, doi: 10.3390/mi9050210 . 56 -- Nita Solehati, Joonsoo Bae and Agus P. Sasmito Optimization of Wavy-Channel Micromixer Geometry Using -- Taguchi Method † Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 70, doi: 10.3390/mi9020070 . 84 -- Wasim Raza, Sang-Bum Ma and Kwang-Yong Kim Multi-Objective Optimizations of a Serpentine Micromixer with -- Crossing Channels at Low and High Reynolds Numbers Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 110, doi: 10.3390/mi9030110 . 98 -- Yuchen Guo, Yifan Xu, Yongbo Deng and Zhenyu Liu Topology Optimization of Passive Micromixers Based on -- Lagrangian Mapping Method Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 137, doi: 10.3390/mi9030137 . 116 -- Chao Shan, Feng Chen, Qing Yang, Zhuangde Jiang and Xun Hou 3D Multi-Microchannel Helical Mixer Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser inside Fused Silica Reprinted from: Micromachines 2018, 9, 29, doi: 10.3390/mi9010029 . 131 -- Gaozhe Cai, Li Xue, Huilin Zhang and Jianhan Lin A Review on Micromixers Reprinted from: Micromachines 2017, 8, 274, doi: 10.3390/mi8090274 .138.