The importance of downstream events in microfluidic viscoelastic entry flows: Consequences of increasing the constriction length

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 165, Issue 19-20, 2010, Pages 1189-1203

  Rodd, Lucy E ^a   Lee, Daewoong ^b   Ahn, Kyung Hyun ^b   Cooper White, Justin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contraction expansion; Entry flow; Microfluidics; Polyethylene oxide; Relaxation; Unstable flow

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC FLOWS; CONTRACTION-EXPANSION; CONVERGING FLOW; DILUTE SOLUTION; DIVERGING FLOW; ELASTIC FLOWS; ELASTIC FLUIDS; ELASTICITY NUMBER; ENTRY FLOW; EXTRA PRESSURE DROPS; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMERS; LOW VISCOSITY; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RELAXATION; RELAXATION EVENT; STRETCHING DYNAMICS; SYMMETRIC VORTEX; UNSTABLE FLOWS; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT;

EXPANSION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMER MELTS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOPLASTICS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 79960576290     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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