Design Optimization of Micromixers

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The mixing performance of a passive micromixer is sensitive to the geometry of the flow passages. Therefore, it is important to determine optimal configuration which maximizes the mixing performance of the micromixer. But, unfortunately, in some micromixers, enhancement of mixing performance is accompanied by a corresponding increase in pressure drop. Therefore, it is important to determine several configurations which represent the trade-offs between mixing efficiency and pressure drop. Numerical optimization techniques coupled with CFD analyses of flow and mixing have been proved to be an important tool for micromixer design. Both the single-objective and multi-objective optimization procedures for the shape optimization of micromixers are presented. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

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