Asymmetrical breakup of bubbles at a microfluidic T-junction divergence: Feedback effect of bubble collision

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 723-733

  Wu, Yining ^a   Fu, Taotao ^a   Zhu, Chunying ^a   Lu, Yutao ^a   Ma, Youguang ^a   Li, Huai Z ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetrical breakup; Bubble collision; Feedback; Loop; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE BEHAVIOR; BUBBLE COLLISION; DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; GAS AND LIQUID FLOWS; HIGH-FLOW RATE; HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL CAMERAS; LOOP; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; SINGLE BUBBLES; SQUARE CROSS-SECTION; T JUNCTIONS;

FEEDBACK; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS;

FLOW RATE;

EID: 84871740399     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-0991-x     Document Type: Article

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