Motion of a droplet through microfluidic ratchets

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Jing ^a   Yap, Yit Fatt ^a   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CONTINUOUS PHASE; DIFFUSER/NOZZLE; DISPERSED PHASIS; DROPLET VELOCITY; FLUID SYSTEMS; INCREASING VISCOSITY; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; MEAN VELOCITIES; MICRO PUMP; MULTI PHASE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; T JUNCTIONS; TWO PHASIS;

MICROFLUIDICS; PUMPS; VELOCITY; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 70449135039     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.046319     Document Type: Article

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