Thermally mediated droplet formation at a microfluidic T-junction

Micro and Nanosystems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-75

  Ho, Peng Ching ^a   Yap, Yit Fatt ^b   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a   Chai, John Chee Kiong ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Level set method; Microchannels; Microdroplets; Temperature dependency

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; DROPLET FORMATION; DROPLET FORMATION PROCESS; DROPLET SIZES; DROPLET SURFACES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENERGY EQUATION; EXPERIMENT DATA; HEATER GEOMETRY; INCREMENTAL CHANGES; INTEGRATED HEATER; INTERFACIAL CONDITIONS; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; MICRO DROPLETS; NARROW BANDS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; T JUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES;

DROP BREAKUP; DROP FORMATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUIDIC DEVICES; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79953774921     PISSN: 18764029     EISSN: 18764037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1876402911103010065     Document Type: Article

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