Analysis of chaotic mixing in plugs moving in meandering microchannels

• Main Authors: Che, Zhizhao, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Wong, Teck Neng
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94564; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7778
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Droplets moving in meandering microchannels can serve as a passive and robust strategy to produce chaotic mixing of species in droplet-based microfluidics. In this paper, a simplified theoretical model is proposed for plug-shaped droplets moving in meandering microchannels at Stokes flow. With this...