Liquid plug propagation in flexible microchannels: A small airway model

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Zheng, Y ^a   Fujioka, H ^a   Bian, S ^a   Torisawa, Y ^a   Huh, D ^a   Takayama, S ^a   Grotberg, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DROPS; PRESSURE DROP;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DEVICES; FLEXIBLE WALL; LIQUID PLUG PROPAGATION; RIGID CHANNELS; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; STRESS GRADIENT; WALL DEFORMATION;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 70350741555     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3183777     Document Type: Article

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