Transport of bubbles in square microchannels

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4575-4585

  Cubaud, Thomas ^a   Ho, Chih Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; GLASS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SILICON;

FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; HOMOGENOUS FLOW; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCE; MICROCHANNELS;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

BUBBLE; MICROCHANNEL;

EID: 22244435026     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1813871     Document Type: Article

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