Numerical and experimental investigations of the formation process of ferrofluid droplets

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 177-187

  Liu, Jing ^a   Tan, Say Hwa ^a,b   Yap, Yit Fatt ^c   Ng, Min Yuan ^a   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Ferrofluid; Flow focusing; Magnetic field; Microfluidic

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; DROPLET BREAKUP; DROPLET FORMATION PROCESS; DROPLET SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FERROFLUID; FLOW DIRECTION; FLOW FOCUSING; FORCE BALANCES; FORMATION PROCESS; HOMOGENOUS MAGNETIC FIELD; INTERFACE MOVEMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARTICLE LEVEL SET;

FLUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROFLUIDICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 83455232546     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0784-7     Document Type: Article

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