Experimental observations of flow instabilities and rapid mixing of two dissimilar viscoelastic liquids

• Main Authors: Gan, Hiong Yap, Lam, Yee Cheong
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96241; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10229
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Viscoelastically induced flow instabilities, via a simple planar microchannel, were previously used to produce rapid mixing of two dissimilar polymeric liquids (i.e. at least a hundredfold different in shear viscosity) even at a small Reynolds number. The unique advantage of this mixing technology i...