Microbubble formation and pinch-off scaling exponent in flow-focusing devices

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  van Hoeve, Wim ^a   Dollet, Benjamin ^b   Versluis, Michel ^a   Lohse, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; FLOW OF GASES; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; MICROFLUIDICS; SCALING LAWS;

FLOW FOCUSING DEVICES; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; MICROFLUIDIC FLOW-FOCUSING DEVICES; POWER LAW EXPONENT; SCALING EXPONENT; SURFACE TENSION FORCE; ULTRA HIGH SPEED IMAGING;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 80053389275     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3631323     Document Type: Article

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