{"title":"Insight into mixing performance of bionic fractal baffle micromixers based on Murray's Law","authors":"Wenbo Han, Wei Li, Hongpeng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2024.107843","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper systematically investigated the bionic fractal baffle micromixers based on Murray's Law. It focused on the influence of Murray's Law fractal parameters on the mixing performance of bionic fractal baffle micromixers. We varied Murray's Law fractal parameters such as Murray's Law fractal order, distribution position of fractal baffles, Murray's Law initial length, and the number of fractal baffles. The results indicated that increasing the fractal order, adopting an interleaved arrangement structure, increasing the initial length, and employing a larger number of fractal baffles can significantly improve the mixing performance, with mixing efficiency reaching 98.92% at = 100. Furthermore, the reason for the significant enhancement of mixing performance lies in the influence of Murray's Law fractal parameters on the number and area of vortices. This study establishes a theoretical foundation for understanding the interaction between fractal parameters and mixing performance in bionic fractal baffle micromixers based on Murray's Law.","PeriodicalId":332,"journal":{"name":"International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2024.107843","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MECHANICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper systematically investigated the bionic fractal baffle micromixers based on Murray's Law. It focused on the influence of Murray's Law fractal parameters on the mixing performance of bionic fractal baffle micromixers. We varied Murray's Law fractal parameters such as Murray's Law fractal order, distribution position of fractal baffles, Murray's Law initial length, and the number of fractal baffles. The results indicated that increasing the fractal order, adopting an interleaved arrangement structure, increasing the initial length, and employing a larger number of fractal baffles can significantly improve the mixing performance, with mixing efficiency reaching 98.92% at = 100. Furthermore, the reason for the significant enhancement of mixing performance lies in the influence of Murray's Law fractal parameters on the number and area of vortices. This study establishes a theoretical foundation for understanding the interaction between fractal parameters and mixing performance in bionic fractal baffle micromixers based on Murray's Law.
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International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer serves as a world forum for the rapid dissemination of new ideas, new measurement techniques, preliminary findings of ongoing investigations, discussions, and criticisms in the field of heat and mass transfer. Two types of manuscript will be considered for publication: communications (short reports of new work or discussions of work which has already been published) and summaries (abstracts of reports, theses or manuscripts which are too long for publication in full). Together with its companion publication, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, with which it shares the same Board of Editors, this journal is read by research workers and engineers throughout the world.