title: An efficient passive planar micromixer with ellipse-like micropillars for continuous mixing of human blood.
abstract: In this paper, a passive planar micromixer with ellipse-like micropillars is proposed to operate in the laminar flow regime for high mixing efficiency. With a splitting and recombination (SAR) concept, the diffusion distance of the fluids in a micromixer with ellipse-like micropillars was decreased. Thus, space usage for micromixer of an automatic sample collection system is also minimized. Numerical simulation was conducted to evaluate the performance of proposed micromixer by solving the governing Navier-Stokes equation and convection-diffusion equation. With software (COMSOL 4.3) for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) we simulated the mixing of fluids in a micromixer with ellipse-like micropillars and basic T-type mixer in a laminar flow regime. The efficiency of the proposed micromixer is shown in numerical results and is verified by measurement results.
authors: Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Raveien 215, 3184 Borre, Norway; Norchip AS, Industriveien 8, N-3490 Klokkarstua, Norway. Electronic address: Nhut.Tran-Minh@hbv.no.
authors: Nhut
authors: N
authors: Tran-Minh
authors: Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Raveien 215, 3184 Borre, Norway. Electronic address: Tao.Dong@hbv.no.
authors: Tao
authors: T
authors: Dong
authors: Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Raveien 215, 3184 Borre, Norway. Electronic address: Frank.Karlsen@hbv.no.
authors: Frank
authors: F
authors: Karlsen
mesh_terms: D001769:Blood; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software
keywords: Computational fluid dynamics; Micromixer; Passive mixing; Splitting and recombination