Effect of geometry on droplet formation in the squeezing regime in a microfluidic T-junction

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 799-812

  Gupta, Amit ^a   Kumar, Ranganathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary number; Lattice Boltzmann; Microfluidics; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; DISPERSED PHASIS; DROPLET FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOMETRY EFFECTS; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS; T JUNCTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICES; TWO CHANNEL; TWO-FLUID;

CAPILLARITY; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SURFACE TENSION;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 77953617878     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-009-0513-7     Document Type: Article

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