HE Xiu-hua, YAN Jie, WANG Yan. T-shaped micromixer with periodic baffles[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2015,23(10): 2877-2886
HE Xiu-hua, YAN Jie, WANG Yan. T-shaped micromixer with periodic baffles[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2015,23(10): 2877-2886 DOI: 10.3788/OPE.20152310.2877.
An effective passive micromixer based on the T-shaped channel with periodic baffles mounted on the bottom of main channel was designed to enhance the mixing performance of the microfluidic system. Instead of complex spacial geometries
simple periodic geometric features were used to decrease the required mixing distances and time and to obtain remarkable mixing efficiency. With an orthogonal array
the effects of geometrical parameters on the mixing performance were studied by numerical simulations using commercial computational fluid dynamics code ANSYS CFX. A static Taguchi analysis was taken to evaluate the relative effectiveness of the geometrical parameters. The analysis results indicate that the relative effectiveness can be ranked as: the angle of attack(
θ
)
>
microchannel height
(H
)
>
baffle width(
L
)
>
baffle spacing(
D
). Based on the relative effectiveness of the geometrical parameters
an optimal parameter group selected are
θ
=75°
H
=0.4
W
m
L
=0.7
W
m
D
=0.6
W
m
(here
W
m
is the channel width with a value of 200 μm). It demonstrates that the mixing performance of the micromixer with optimal parameter group is improved obviously
and a complete mixing(mixing index
M
is better than 95%) can be obtained when the Reynolds number
Re
is 54. The characteristics of the pressure drop depending on the geometrical parameters are also investigated
and the result shows that the selected θ affects the pressure drop in a similar way under different Reynolds numbers
so does the selected
H
and
D
.
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