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Simonnet C, Groisman A. Chaotic mixing in a steady flow in a microchannel. Phys Rev Lett. 2005;94(13):134501doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.134501.
Simonnet, C., & Groisman, A. (2005). Chaotic mixing in a steady flow in a microchannel. Physical review letters, 94(13), 134501. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.134501
Simonnet, Claire, and Groisman, Alex. "Chaotic mixing in a steady flow in a microchannel." Physical review letters vol. 94,13 (2005): 134501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.134501
Simonnet C, Groisman A. Chaotic mixing in a steady flow in a microchannel. Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Apr 08;94(13):134501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.134501. Epub 2005 Apr 04. PMID: 15903994.
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Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Apr 08;94(13):134501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.134501. Epub 2005 Apr 04.

Chaotic mixing in a steady flow in a microchannel.

Physical review letters

Claire Simonnet, Alex Groisman

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.

PMID: 15903994 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.134501

Abstract

We report experiments on mixing of a passively advected fluorescent dye in a low Reynolds number flow in a microscopic channel. The channel is a chain of repeating segments with a custom designed profile that generates a steady three-dimensional flow with stretching and folding, and chaotic mixing. A few statistical characteristics of mixing in the flow are studied and are all found to agree with theoretical and experimental results for the flows in the Batchelor regime of mixing that are chaotic in time. The proposed microchannel provides fast and efficient mixing and is simple to fabricate.

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