Diagnostic of flow disturbances in a cross-shaped micromixer using wall electrochemical probes

Abstract The understanding of physical phenomena such as flow behavior is essential in order to develop appropriate micromixers for industrial or biomedical applications. In this paper, the relevance of an electrochemical method is demonstrated for a microfluidic diagnostic in the case of high fluctuating flow, over a wide range of Reynolds numbers (300

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