Noncontact bubble manipulation in microchannel by using photothermal Marangoni effect

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 234-244

  Takeuchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Motosuke, Masahiro ^a   Honami, Shinji ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE MANIPULATION; BUBBLE SIZE; CHANNEL WALL; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; LASER FOCUSING; LENGTH SCALE; LIQUID PHASE; LIQUID VISCOSITY; LOCAL GRADIENTS; LOCAL SURFACES; MARANGONI EFFECTS; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICRO-BUBBLE; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; NON-CONTACT; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; OPTICAL POWER; PHOTO-THERMAL; PHOTOTHERMAL TECHNIQUE; SILICONE OIL; THERMO-CAPILLARY FORCES; VISCOUS DRAG;

CAPILLARY FLOW; FLUIDIC DEVICES; SILICONES; SURFACE TENSION;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 84857343658     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2011.562753     Document Type: Article

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