| Savitribai Phule Pune University |
| Title | Development and Analytical Treatment of 3-D Passive Mixromixer for Enhanced Microfluidics Reactions |
| Author/s |
Suresh Gosavi
Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411 007 India Aniket Tekawade Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India Dhananjay Bodas Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India Sukratu Barve Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411 007 India Laurent Robert and Chantal Khan-Malek FEMTO-ST/LPMO, CNRS UMR 6174, France |
| Abstract | With fast development of microfluidic systems, micro-mixing becomes a very important issue. Various attempts have been made to develop passive and active micromixers, wherein the mixing efficiency is mainly dependent on the diffusion coefficient and diffusion mechanism. This paper reports modeling and fabrication of a 3D micromixer based on the principle of sequential lamination for efficient mixing. Simulation of the square tube geometry with varying inlet velocity was performed. The improvement in the mixing efficiency is attributed to the increase in the contact surface between the different fluids decreasing the diffusion path in order to improve the molecular diffusion. The design approach in the present case is also supported by analytical treatment which indicates superiority of 2D transverse flows while designing a micromixer. The optimized parameters from CFD simulation were used for fabrication of the micromixer by standard photolithographic and soft lithographic techniques |
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| Citing This Document | Suresh Gosavi, Aniket Tekawade, Dhananjay Bodas, Sukratu Barve, Laurent Robert, and Chantal Khan-Malek , Development and Analytical Treatment of 3-D Passive Mixromixer for Enhanced Microfluidics Reactions . Technical Report CMS-TR-20110224 of the Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007, India (2011); available at http://scms.unipune.ac.in/reports/. |
| Notes, Published Reference, Etc. | Published in the Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 9th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, 2011, Edmonton, Canada. |
| Contact | sukratu AT scms.unipune.ac.in |
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