Droplet formation in microfluidic cross-junctions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Haihu ^a,b   Zhang, Yonghao ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DROP BREAKUP; GEOMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; PARALLEL FLOW;

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; FITTING CONSTANTS; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 80052317326     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3615643     Document Type: Article

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