Analysis of Mining Performance and Flow Measurement Inside a Micro Mixer

마이크로 혼합기 내의 유동 계측 및 혼합 특성 해석

  • 성재용 (LG전자 디지털어플라이언스(연)) ;
  • 이인원 (LG전자 디지털어플라이언스(연)) ;
  • 김병균 (KAIST 전자전산학과) ;
  • 윤의식 (KAIST 전자전산학과) ;
  • 이인섭 (LG전자 디지털어플라이언스(연))
  • Published : 2002.11.01

Abstract

To investigate the flow related to the mixing, micro PIV measurements were performed in the middle plane of the channel. A passive micro mixer analyzed in this work has been designed in the shape of a three-dimensional microchannel and fabricated with PDMS molding process by KAIST. The mixing performance was evaluated for different flow rates using phenolphthalein and sodium hydroxide solutions. Results show that mixing is enhanced by the increase of flow rate, which yields stronger secondary flows with helical streamlines.

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