Dynamics of step-emulsification: From a single to a collection of emulsion droplet generators

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Mittal, Nitesh ^a,b   Cohen, Céline ^a,c   Bibette, Jérôme ^a   Bremond, Nicolas ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DROP FORMATION; DUCTILE FRACTURE; EMULSIONS; MICROFLUIDICS; VISCOSITY;

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CRITICAL PERIODS; EMULSIFICATION PROCESS; EMULSION DROPLETS; MAXIMUM PRODUCTION RATE; PARALLELIZATIONS; SIZE POLYDISPERSITY; VISCOSITY RATIOS;

EMULSIFICATION;

EID: 84929347135     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892949     Document Type: Article

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