Coalescences of microdroplets at a cross-shaped microchannel junction without strictly synchronism control

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 227, Issue , 2013, Pages 90-96

  Wang, Kai ^a   Lu, Yangcheng ^a   Tostado, Chris P ^a   Yang, Lu ^a   Luo, Guangsheng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Cross shaped junction; Microchannel; Microdroplet

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; CROSS-SHAPED JUNCTION; CROSS-SHAPED MICROCHANNELS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FLOW CHARACTERS; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; MICRO DROPLETS; MICRO-CHANNEL DEVICES;

DROPS; MICROCHANNELS;

COALESCENCE;

EID: 84879841688     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.09.060     Document Type: Article

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