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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: Lab Chip. 2008 May 23;8(7):1121–1129. doi: 10.1039/b802562b

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Comparison of confocal mixing data (triangles, dashed line) to COMSOL (circles, shaded line) and analytical (solid line) models at Pe = 6.25×102 (a), Pe = 6.25×103 (b), and Pe = 6.25×104 (c). Confocal and COMSOL were quantified by CV, while the analytical model refers to P(Ld<Li); both are plotted on the same axis. Confocal data reached baseline just below CV = 0.1, which is particularly evident at low Pe. COMSOL models oscillated slightly during the exponential decline due to processing errors. While confocal and COMSOL appeared to give a pure exponential decline, the analytical model predicted a Pe-dependent length with little change in mixing, followed by an exponential decline of P(Ld<Li) with a Pe-independent slope. The noise and resolution limits of the confocal and COMSOL data may have obscured such behavior.