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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL REACTOR ENGINEERING
Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 553-569Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/ijcre-2020-0188
Keywords
acoustic field; microfluidic; micromixing
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Acoustic field-driven micromixers utilize vibration induced by sound waves to improve mixing performance, with air bubbles acting as an external energy source and inducing friction forces at the interface between the bubble and liquid, leading to circulatory flows.
A review on acoustic field-driven micromixers is given. This is supplemented by the governing equations, governing non-dimensional parameters, numerical simulation approaches, and fabrication techniques. Acoustically induced vibration is a kind of external energy input employed in active micromixers to improve the mixing performance. An air bubble energized by an acoustic field acts as an external energy source and induces friction forces at the interface between an air bubble and liquid, leading to the formation of circulatory flows. The current review (with 200 references) evaluates different characteristics of microfluidic devices working based on acoustic field shaking.
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