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Solved with COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b Particle Tracing in a Micromixer Note: This model requires the Particle Tracing Module. Introduction Micromixers can either be static or dynamic depending on the required mixing time and length scale. For static mixers, the Reynolds number has to be suitable high to induce turbulence enhanced mixing. Often micromixers operate in the laminar flow regime due to their small characteristic size. The diffusivity of a solute in the flowing −10 2 fluid may also be extremely small, on the order of 10 m /s. This results in mixing length scales on the order of meters—clearly unacceptable for a microscale device. Static mixers try to alleviate the problem by adding mixing elements to induce vorticity into the flow. A dynamic mixer uses rotating blades to enhance the mixing process, allowing for smaller scale devices. The one big disadvantage of a dynamic mixer is that moving parts are required. Model Definition This model examines how mixing between microscopic particles occurs in a micromixer. There are 3 inlets into the device and a single outlet. The particles enter the modeling domain through the inlets in a continuous stream. A new set of particles is released every 50 milliseconds for a total of one second. After this, no more particles are released but the model is solved for an additional second. For each release inlet and each release time, 50 particles are released with an initial velocity equal to the fluid velocit