Three-dimensional flows in slowly varying planar geometries

DOI10.1063/1.1760105zbMATH Open1186.76309arXivcond-mat/0306572OpenAlexW2016534119MaRDI QIDQ3554568FDOQ3554568

Authors: Eric Lauga, Abraham D. Stroock, Howard A. Stone 

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider laminar flow in channels constrained geometrically to remain between two parallel planes; this geometry is typical of microchannels obtained with a single step by current microfabrication techniques. For pressure-driven Stokes flow in this geometry and assuming that the channel dimensions change slowly in the streamwise direction, we show that the velocity component perpendicular to the constraint plane cannot be zero unless the channel has both constant curvature and constant cross-sectional width. This result implies that it is, in principle, possible to design "planar mixers", i.e. passive mixers for channels that are constrained to lie in a flat layer using only streamwise variations of their in-plane dimensions. Numerical results are presented for the case of a channel with sinusoidally varying width.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306572

zbMATH Keywords

geometrytwo-phase flowlaminar flowchannel flowstratified flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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