Role of the channel geometry on the bubble pinch-off in flow-focusing devices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Dollet, Benjamin ^a,c   Van Hoeve, Wim ^a   Raven, Jan Paul ^b   Marmottant, Philippe ^b   Versluis, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LIPHY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLYDISPERSITY;

BUBBLE POLYDISPERSITY; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; FLOW-FOCUSING DEVICES; LIQUID INTERFACES;

BUBBLE FORMATION;

EID: 38549179308     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.034504     Document Type: Article

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