Scaling behavior of optimally structured catalytic microfluidic reactors

Abstract

In this study of catalytic microfluidic reactors we show that, when optimally structured, these reactors share underlying scaling properties. The scaling is predicted theoretically and verified numerically. Furthermore, we show how to increase the reaction rate significantly by distributing the active porous material within the reactor using a high-level implementation of topology optimization.

4 pages, 5 eps figures

References in corpus (1)

• A high-level programming-language implementation of topology optimization applied to steady-state Navier-Stokes flow

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