Second Law Analysis of a Passive Micromixer with Flow Obstacles
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Ferguson, Steven E., Jr.
نام ساير پديدآوران
Lemley, Evan
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Central Oklahoma
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2020
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
78 p.
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
M.S.M.E.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of Central Oklahoma
امتياز متن
2020
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Passive micromixers focus on variations in the channel geometry and the presence of flow obstacles as a means of improving mixing efficiency. An analysis of these geometries can provide useful information for further mixer design iteration. These passive micromixers have applications in biosciences, in particular as point-of-care diagnostic testing devices. Because these mixers utilize the channel geometry, rather than moving parts, to increase mixing efficiency, they can be more easily deployed in developing or relatively undeveloped locales. This thesis presents a detailed computational analysis of a channel design that utilizes obstacles that split and recombine the fluid flow in a rectangular microchannel. Numerical simulations were created using computational fluid dynamics software running on a supercomputer cluster. The Second Law of Thermodynamics is utilized to identify areas of irreversibility due to both chaotic advection induced by flow obstacles and diffusion. The design is analyzed for a range of Reynolds numbers typical to micromixers. Additionally, different inlet velocity ratios are analyzed to examine whether this can potentially improve mixing efficiency within this channel design.
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Computational physics
اصطلاح موضوعی
Mechanical engineering
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