Entrapped air bubbles in piezo-driven inkjet printing: Their effect on the droplet velocity

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  de Jong, Jos ^a   Jeurissen, Roger ^a   Borel, Huub ^a   van den Berg, Marc ^b   Wijshoff, Herman ^b   Reinten, Hans ^b   Versluis, Michel ^a   Prosperetti, Andrea ^a,c   Lohse, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b OCÉ TECHNOLOGIES B V   (Netherlands)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Air; Bubbles; Channel flow; Diffusion; Drops; Ink jet printers; Jets; Nozzles

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; JETS; NOZZLES; PRINTING MACHINERY; VELOCITY; DROPS; INK JET PRINTING;

DROPLET VELOCITY; INK JET PRINTERS; AIR BUBBLES; ENTRAPPED AIRS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PRESSURE BUILD UP; RECTIFIED DIFFUSION; RESONANCE EFFECT;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); AIR;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; JETS; NOZZLES; PRINTING MACHINERY; VELOCITY;

EID: 33846117807     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2397015     Document Type: Article

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