Co-reporter:Yeh-Chan Ahn, Woonggyu Jung and Zhongping Chen
Lab on a Chip 2008 vol. 8(Issue 1) pp:125-133
Publication Date(Web):22 Oct 2007
DOI:10.1039/B713626A
Secondary flow plays a critical function in a microchannel, such as a micromixer, because it can enhance heat and mass transfer. However, there is no experimental method to visualize the secondary flow and the associated mixing pattern in a microchannel because of difficulties in high-resolution, non-invasive, cross-sectional imaging. Here, we simultaneously imaged and quantified the secondary flow and pattern of two-liquid mixing inside a meandering square microchannel with spectral-domain Doppler optical coherence tomography. We observed an increase in the efficiency of two-liquid mixing when air was injected to produce a bubble-train flow and identified the three-dimensional enhancement mechanism behind the complex mixing phenomena. An alternating pair of counter-rotating and toroidal vortices cooperated to enhance two-liquid mixing.
Co-reporter:Jiawen Li, Xiang Li, Dilbahar Mohar, Aidan Raney, ... Zhongping Chen
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging (January 2014) Volume 7(Issue 1) pp:101-103
Publication Date(Web):1 January 2014
DOI:10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.07.012