Transient micromixing: Examples of laminar and chaotic stirring
Transient micromixing: Examples of laminar and chaotic stirring
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瞬时微混合:层流和混沌搅拌的示例
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2005
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J. Gleeson
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J. Gleeson
The efficiency of a micromixing device may be quantified by the time taken for a given initial state of separated fluids to reach a desired level of homogenization. In the physically relevant case of high Peclet number the accurate prediction of the mixing time is a challenging problem, even in simple two-dimensional flows within bounded domains. In this paper a closed-form solution for the time dependence of mixing in an annular micromixer is derived and verified by numerical simulation. The mixing time is found to scale with Peclet number as a power law, but the power-law exponent depends on the level of homogeneity desired in the final state. Numerical simulation of a recent model of chaotic mixing reveals a vortexlike stirring effect in quasiperiodic islands of the Poincare map of the flow, which strongly influences the mixing time. This stirring effect is identified with an exponential decrease in solute variance on an intermediate time scale, being subdominant to the asymptotic long-time decay, but ...