Thermally mediated breakup of drops in microchannels

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Ting, Teck Hui ^a   Yap, Yit Fatt ^a   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a   Wong, Teck Neng ^a   Chai, John Chee Kiong ^a   Yobas, Levent ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AQUEOUS DROPLETS; CONTROL TEMPERATURE; DROPLET BREAKUP PROCESS; SURFACE TENSION GRADIENTS;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 33845452946     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2400200     Document Type: Article

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