Blue energy streams from tubes converge into a swirling vortex with glowing particles in a dark, metallic chamber.

The tangential impingement of multiple inlet streams into the central mixing chamber induces a powerful rotational flow, creating a vigorous vortex.28 This vortical motion, particularly at sufficiently high Reynolds numbers (typically above 1600 for adequate micromixing) 16, generates intense shear forces within the fluid. These high shear forces are crucial for rapidly stretching and thinning fluid interfaces, facilitating molecular interdiffusion, and effectively breaking up aggregates or lumps, thereby ensuring rapid and homogeneous mixing, even for viscous or cohesive materials.1 See more