Hydrodynamic feedback on bubble breakup at a T-junction within an asymmetric loop

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1920-1929

  Fu, Taotao ^a,b   Ma, Youguang ^a   Li, Huai Z ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Bubble; Hydrodynamic feedback; Microfluidics; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

ADDITIONAL RESISTANCES; BREAKUP MECHANISMS; BUBBLE; DOWNSTREAM CHANNELS; HYDRODYNAMIC FEEDBACK; LIQUID VISCOSITY; MICROFLUIDIC T JUNCTIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 84897962003     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14377     Document Type: Article

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