Modeling and simulation of thermocapillary flows using lattice Boltzmann method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4433-4453

  Liu, Haihu ^a   Zhang, Yonghao ^b   Valocchi, Albert J ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Droplet manipulation; Lattice Boltzmann model; Marangoni stresses; Microfluidics; Thermocapillary

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DROPS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MICROFLUIDICS;

DROPLET MANIPULATION; DROPLET MOTION; INTENSITY OF LASER; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LATTICE-BOLTZMANN MODEL; MARANGONI NUMBERS; MARANGONI STRESS; THERMO-CAPILLARY FORCES; THERMOCAPILLARY; THERMOCAPILLARY FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84860427874     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.02.015     Document Type: Article

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