Influence of liquid hydrophobicity and nozzle passage curvature on microfluidic dynamics in a drop ejection process

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lai, Jr Ming ^a   Huang, Chang Yan ^a   Chen, Chih Hao ^a   Linliu, Kung ^b   Lin, Jenn Der ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NOZZLES; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SPRAY NOZZLES; VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY SURFACES; CONTINUOUS SURFACE; INTERFACE-CAPTURING METHOD; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PIECEWISE LINEAR; SATELLITE DROPS; THEORETICAL MODELING; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

DROPS;

EID: 84858614239     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/20/1/015033     Document Type: Article

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