Sammendrag
The paper presents a design of micromixer for laminar blood mixing. In order to minimize the space usage for micromixer of an automatic sample collection system, a splitting and recombination (SAR) concept was employed to reduce the diffusion distance of the fluids. Moreover, ellipse-like micropillars were introduced to this concept to increase the mixing performance of micro-mixer. 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. Numerical results illustrate that the micromixer with SAR concept achieves an outstanding mixing efficien-cy than the one without SAR concept. Numerical results also show that the SAR micromixer with ellipse-like micropillars is up to 99% efficient, and that efficiency reaches 90% in a short distance
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