Non-Newtonian fluid mixing in spiral micromixers: An extensive numerical analysis

ZG Kharaji, M Bayareh - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
High-performance micromixers play a crucial role in diverse industrial applications. Utilizing
chaotic advection as a well-established technique improves mixing efficiency due to the …

Comparative study of mixing behaviors using non-Newtonian fluid flows in passive micromixers

A Kouadri, E Douroum, Y Lasbet, TT Naas… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-performances micromixers are widely used in various industrial applications. Mixing in
the laminar regime and at low Reynolds numbers is of major importance in some processes …

Non-Newtonian fluid mixing in a Three-Dimensional spiral passive micromixer

S Tokas, M Zunaid, MA Ansari - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021 - Elsevier
Micro mixing presents a challenge in the rapid mixing of fluids as micro-scale mixing largely
relies on the molecular diffusion phenomenon which requires large channel lengths and …

The effect of varying radius of curvature on mixing in elliptical spiral microchannels

R Altay, AA Yetisgin, K Erdem, A Koşar - Chemical Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective mixing is essential for a wide range of microfluidics applications. Passive
micromixers have attracted much attention during recent years due to their low-cost and …

Thermal mixing performances of shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluids inside Two-Layer Crossing Channels Micromixer using entropy generation method …

NT Tayeb, K Amar, K Sofiane, L Lakhdar… - … and Processing-Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a numerical comparative study is carried out to investigate a laminar steady flow
behavior of shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluids in three chaotic geometries: Two-Layer …

Thermal and Hydrodynamic Measurements of a Novel Chaotic Micromixer to Enhance Mixing Performance

A Mahammedi, R Kouider, NT Tayeb… - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this study, three-dimensional simulations were conducted on a new passive micromixer to
assess the thermal and hydrodynamic behaviors of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids …

Numerical investigation of the performance of 3D‐helical passive micromixer with Newtonian fluid and non‐Newtonian fluid blood

S Tokas, M Zunaid, MA Ansari - Asia‐Pacific Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mixing at microscales is purely governed by the diffusion mass transport phenomenon,
which is a time‐consuming process requiring a prolonged length of the microchannel to …

Diffusion and convection mixing of non‐Newtonian liquids in an optimized micromixer

A Bordbar, A Taassob, R Kamali - The Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
An optimized planar micromixer has been employed to study its performance in mixing
liquids with various rheological behaviours. This design takes advantage of a number of …

Mixing enhancement of non-Newtonian shear-thinning fluid for a Kenics micromixer

A Mahammedi, NT Tayeb, KY Kim, S Hossain - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this work, a numerical investigation was analyzed to exhibit the mixing behaviors of non-
Newtonian shear-thinning fluids in Kenics micromixers. The numerical analysis was …

Assessment of mixing behaviors of non-Newtonian pseudoplastic fluids in short microdevices

A Kouadri, E Douroum, AR El Ouederni… - … Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Efficient chaotic microdevices have major importance across many potential applications in
industrial processes and operations, which form essential parts of microfluidic devices. In …