Mixing process of immiscible fluids in microchannels

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1125-1133

  Balan, Catalin Mihai ^a   Broboana, Diana ^a   Balan, Corneliu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Immiscible fluids; Interface; Microchannel flows; Surface tension; VOF method; Vortical structures

Indexed keywords

IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; INTERFACE; MICROCHANNEL FLOWS; VOF METHOD; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

CHANNEL FLOW; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; VISUALIZATION; VORTICITY;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 78449299910     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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