Design and simulation of an interdigital-chaotic advection micromixer for lab-on-a-chip applications Khoshmanesh, Khashayar, Kouzani, Abbas, Nahavandi, Saeid, Baratchi, Sara and Kanwar, Jagat 2008, Design and simulation of an interdigital-chaotic advection micromixer for lab-on-a-chip applications, in MicroFlu 2008 : Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Microfluidics, Societe Hydrotechnique de France SHF, Paris, France, pp. 1-9. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads khoshmanesh-designand-2008.pdf Published version application/pdf 342.98KB 262 Title Design and simulation of an interdigital-chaotic advection micromixer for lab-on-a-chip applications Author(s) Khoshmanesh, Khashayar Kouzani, Abbas orcid.org/0000-0002-6292-1214 Nahavandi, Saeid orcid.org/0000-0002-0360-5270 Baratchi, Sara Kanwar, Jagat orcid.org/0000-0003-3728-9568 Conference name European Conference on Microfluidics (1st : 2008 : Bologna, Italy) Conference location Universita di Bologna, Italy Conference dates December 10-12, 2008 Title of proceedings MicroFlu 2008 : Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Microfluidics Editor(s) Colin, Stephane Luca Morini, Gian Publication date 2008 Start page 1 End page 9 Publisher Societe Hydrotechnique de France SHF Place of publication Paris, France Summary This paper presents the design and simulation of a novel passive micromixer. The micromixer consists of two inlet tanks, one mixing channel and two outlet channels. In order to maximise the mixing efficiency, the following considerations are made: (i) The inlet tanks are followed by a series of microchannels, in which the flow is split. The microchannels are arranged in an interdigital manner to maximise the contact area between the two flows. (ii) The microchannels attached to the lower inlet tank have an upward slope while those attached to the upper tank have a downward slope. The higher-density flow is fed to the lower inlet tank and gets an upward velocity before entering the mixing channel. (iii) Two triangular barriers are placed within the mixing channel to impose chaotic advection and perturb the less-mixed flow along the top and bottom surfaces of the channel. (iv) Finally, two outlet channels are incorporated to discard the less-mixed flow. Three-dimensional simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance of the micromixer. Simulations are performed in the absence and presence of the gravitational force to analyse the influence of gravity on the micromixer. Mixing efficiencies of greater than 92% are achieved using water and a 1011'density biological solvent as the mixing fluids. ISBN 290683176X 9782906831766 Language eng Field of Research 091306 Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Socio Economic Objective 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed ERA Research output type X Not reportable HERDC collection year 2008 Copyright notice ©2008, Societe Hydrotechnique de France SHF Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30018264 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Institute of Biotechnology Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 14:06:39 EST Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 12:08:20 EST Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 12:11:55 EST Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 16:18:55 EST Wed, 23 Sep 2009, 09:20:27 EST Fri, 14 May 2010, 08:18:35 EST Tue, 15 Jun 2010, 14:06:11 EST Tue, 15 Jun 2010, 14:07:12 EST Thu, 07 Jun 2012, 08:48:51 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 09:46:51 EST Tue, 09 Dec 2014, 08:08:50 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 12:59:36 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 06:32:21 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 14:21:13 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 925 Abstract Views, 266 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 14:06:39 EST

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