Sheathless hydrodynamic positioning of buoyant drops and bubbles inside microchannels

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Stan, Claudiu A ^a   Guglielmini, Laura ^b,c   Ellerbee, Audrey K ^a   Caviezel, Daniel ^d   Stone, Howard A ^b   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ASCOMP GMBH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BUOYANT DROPS; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CARRIER FLUIDS; CARRIER LIQUID; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID; CONFINED ENVIRONMENT; DROPS AND BUBBLES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW REGIMES; FLUOROCARBON LIQUID; HYDROCARBON LIQUIDS; HYDRODYNAMIC LIFT FORCES; HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; LIFT FORCE; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; SILICONE OIL; STEADY STATE; VISCOUS LIQUIDS; APPROPRIATE VELOCITIES;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCHANNELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SILICONES; MICROFLUIDICS;

DROPS;

EID: 80052981006     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.036302     Document Type: Article

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