Flow behavior and mixing of single-phase laminar Newtonian miscible fluid in T-junction micromixer with twisted mixing channel - A numerical study

Design of a high-throughput integrated microfluidic chip combining micromixing and particle sorting functions

“…A micro-mixer with excellent performance can make biochemical analysis faster and more effective, affecting the whole system [6]. In recent years, a large number of scholars at home and abroad have already done a lot of research work in the field of micro-mixing research and achieved fruitful research results, including the structural optimization of the micro-mixer, the simulation and analysis of the internal flow, and micro-mixing experiments [7][8][9][10][11]. Usually, because the fluid needs to pass through the narrow flow channel when flowing through the micromixer, the fluid flow rate is slow, and the fluid Reynolds number is low (Re = 0.1∼100).…”

Evaluation of the mixing index in a micromixer of side feeds in a conical chamber

“…Traditional T-and Y-shaped micromixers have been commonly adopted as feeding regions, with subsequent innovative geometric structures to induce chaotic advection (Lobasov et al, 2018;Mashaei et al, 2020;Prakash et al, 2023;Tokas et al, 2021;Yusuf et al, 2022). For instance, Kurnia et al (2022) proposed a traditional T-shaped micromixer with a twisted mixing channel to induce swirling secondary streamlines. The microchannel with the highest number of twists intensely perturbed the flow and increased the mixing index by almost four times more than the microchannel with no twists.…”

“…The addition of obstacles and the disordered design of the walls of devices right after the entrance region have been usually adopted for disturbing the flow along the microchannel, inducing the entanglement of the streamlines until the exit. A large amount of 3D micromixers with curved walls and obstacles that split and recombine streams have been studied for this purpose (Cetkin and Miguel, 2019;Chen et al, 2022;Kurnia et al, 2022;Talebjedi et al, 2021;Viktorov et al, 2016). For instance, Wang et al (2021) proposed to work with a simple structure of a serpentine micromixer with elliptic curves to evaluate the mixing index with minimization of the pressure drop.…”

Entropy generation analysis and thermal synergy efficiency in the T-shaped micro-kenics

“…The T-Shape mixer, whose 3Din laminar steady flow is one of the probable chaotic geometries that may offera reasonable strategy to improving the hydrodynamic and fluid kinematics performances. Some of the researchers who used such geometry in their investigations [ [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] ], they empirically and numerically proposed numerous patterns for implementing chaotic advection to passively boost fluid mixing. According to their findings, the mixing rate of the T-shaped mixer grows as the Reynolds number increases.…”