Microfluidic breakups of confined droplets against a linear obstacle: The importance of the viscosity contrast

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Salkin, Louis ^a   Courbin, Laurent ^a   Panizza, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CONTINUOUS PHASIS; CRITICAL SIZE; DEFORMABLE OBJECT; DROPS AND BUBBLES; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HYDRODYNAMIC REGIME; NONMONOTONIC; OBJECT SIZE; VISCOSITY CONTRAST;

CAPILLARITY; EXPERIMENTS; VISCOSITY;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 84866932859     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.036317     Document Type: Article

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