A NUMERICAL STUDY ON FLOW AND STIRRING CHARACTERISTICS IN A MICROCHANNEL WITH PERIODIC ARRAY OF CROSS BAFFLES

엇갈림 배플 구조의 마이크로 채널 내 유동 및 혼합 특성에 관한 수치해석적 연구

  • 허성규 (동아대학교 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 허영근 (동아대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 허형석 (동아대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 서용권 (동아대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2006.10.13

Abstract

In the microfluidics devices the most important thing is mixing efficiency of various fluids. In this study a newly designed mixer is proposed to enhance the mixing effect with the purpose to apply it to microchannel mixing in a short future. This design is composed of a channel with cross baffles periodically arranged on the both bottom and top surfaces of the channel. To obtain the flow patterns, the numerical computation was performed by using a commercial code, ANSYS CFX 10.0. To evaluate the mixing performance, we computed Lyapunov exponent and obtained Poincare sections.

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