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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2004.28.1.063

Development of a Barrier Embedded Chaotic Micromixer  

김동성 (포항공과대학교 기계공학과)
이석우 (포항공과대학교 기계공학과)
권태헌 (포항공과대학교 기계공학과)
이승섭 (포항공과대학교 기계공학과)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.28, no.1, 2004 , pp. 63-69 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is of great interest to enhance mixing performance in a microchannel in which the flow is usually characterized as a low Reynolds number (Re) so that good mixing is quite difficult to be achieved in this laminar flow regime. In this regard, we present a new chaotic passive micromixer, named Barrier Embedded Micromixer (BEM), of which the mixing mechanism is based on chaotic flows. In BEM, chaotic flow is induced by periodic perturbation of the velocity field due to periodically inserted barriers along the channel wall while a helical type of flow is obtained by slanted grooves on the bottom surface of the channel in the pressure driven flow. To experimentally compare the mixing performance, a T-microchannel and a microchannel with only slanted grooves were also fabricated. All microchannels were made of PDMS (Polydimethylsiloxane) from SU-8 masters that were fabricated by conventional photolithography. Mixing performance was experimentally characterized with respect to an average mixing intensity by means of color change of phenolphthalein as pH indicator. It was found that mixing efficiency decreases as Re increases for all three micromixers. Experimental results obviously indicate that BEM has better mixing performance than the other two. Chaotic mixing mechanism, suggested in this study, can be easily applied to integrated microfluidic systems , such as Micro-Total-Analysis-System, Lab-on-a-chip and so on.
Keywords
Chaotic Mixing; Micromixer; Barrier; Microfluidics;
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