A study of mixing in thermocapillary flows on micropatterned surfaces
- 15 May 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Vol. 362 (1818) , 1037-1058
Abstract
The recent introduction of actuation mechanisms for microfluidic transport based on free surface flows raises a number of interesting questions involving efficient mixing configurations, especially...Keywords
This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- Thermocapillary actuation of droplets on chemically patterned surfaces by programmable microheater arraysJournal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2003
- Contact line instability and pattern selection in thermally driven liquid filmsPhysics of Fluids, 2003
- Creating, transporting, cutting, and merging liquid droplets by electrowetting-based actuation for digital microfluidic circuitsJournal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2003
- Chaotic Mixer for MicrochannelsScience, 2002
- Mathematical modeling of drop mixing in a slit-type microchannelJournal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2001
- Effect of van der Waals Interactions on the Fingering Instability of Thermally Driven Thin Wetting FilmsLangmuir, 2001
- Electrowetting-based actuation of liquid droplets for microfluidic applicationsApplied Physics Letters, 2000
- Experimental and theoretical scaling laws for transverse diffusive broadening in two-phase laminar flows in microchannelsApplied Physics Letters, 2000
- Hydrodynamic Focusing on a Silicon Chip: Mixing Nanoliters in MicrosecondsPhysical Review Letters, 1998
- How rapidly is a passive scalar mixed within closed streamlines?Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1983