Breakup dynamics of slender bubbles in non-newtonian fluids in microfluidic flow-focusing devices

AIChE Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3560-3567

  Fu, Taotao ^a,b   Ma, Youguang ^a   Funfschilling, Denis ^b   Zhu, Chunying ^a   Li, Huai Z ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Breakup; Bubble; Flow focusing; Micro PIV; Microfluidics; Non Newtonian

Indexed keywords

BREAKUP DYNAMICS; BUBBLE; BUBBLE BREAK-UP; CONTINUOUS PHASE; FLOW-FOCUSING; LIQUID PHASE; MICRO DEVICES; MICRO PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; MICRO PIV; MICRO-SCALES; MICROFLUIDIC FLOW-FOCUSING DEVICES; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PINCHOFF; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; VELOCITY FIELD; VISCOSITY DISTRIBUTION;

DROP BREAKUP; ELECTROOSMOSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; RHEOLOGY; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84867232699     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.13723     Document Type: Article

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