%0 Journal Article
%T Micro T-Mixer with Baffles: Effect of Baffle Height and Setting Angle on Mixing
%A Miah Md Ashraful Alam
%A Taichi Hirano
%A Yasutaka Hayamizu
%A Takuya Masuda
%A Tatsuki Hamada
%A Shinichi Morita
%A Manabu Takao
%J Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics
%P 206-215
%@ 2165-3860
%D 2023
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojfd.2023.134015
%X Chaotic mixing in eight different types of micro T-mixer flow has been studied experimentally and numerically. The present experimental study was performed to visualize two-liquid flows in a micro T-mixer with baffles. The Reynolds number, baffle height and setting angle were varied to investigate their effect on the mixing performance. Three micro T-mixer models were produced, which are several centimeters long and have a rectangular cross-section of few millimeters a side. The mixing of two-liquid was measured using the laser induced fluorescence (LIF) technique. Moreover, three-dimensional numerical simulations were conducted with the open-source CFD solver, OpenFOAM, for the same configuration as used in the experiments to investigate the detailed mechanism of the chaotic mixing. As a result, it was found that the mixing of two-liquid is greatly improved in the micro T-mixer with baffle. The baffle height and setting angle show a significant influence on the mixing performance.
%K Micromixer
%K Baffles
%K Liquid-Liquid Mixing
%K LIF
%K CFD
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=127989