Inertial migration of deformable droplets in a microchannel

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Xiaodong ^a   Xue, Chundong ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   Hu, Guoqing ^a   Jiang, Xingyu ^c   Sun, Jiashu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SYNFUELS CHINA CO   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANGULAR VELOCITY; DEFORMATION; DROP FORMATION; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

CHANNEL CROSS SECTION; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; DEFORMATION PARAMETER; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; GEOMETRICAL SYMMETRIES; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; STRAIGHT MICROCHANNELS; STREAMWISE DIRECTIONS;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 84919480991     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4901884     Document Type: Article

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