Influence of triangular obstacles on droplet breakup dynamics in microfluidic systems

A Tazikeh Lemeski, SM Seyyedi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Microfluidic devices with complex geometries and obstacles have attracted considerable
interest in biomedical engineering and chemical analysis. Understanding droplet breakup …

Impact of hybrid surfaces on the droplet breakup dynamics in microgravity slug flow: A dynamic contact angle analysis

SM Mousavi, D Jarrahbashi, BJ Lee, N Karimi… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Microfluidic devices, which enable precise control and manipulation of fluids at the
microscale, have revolutionized various fields, including chemical synthesis and space …

The bubble breakup process and behavior in T-type microchannels

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, G Zhang, M Tian - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A double T-type microchannel consisting of two T-junctions is used as the base unit of tree-
like microchannels. Studying the breakup process and behavior of bubbles in T-type …

Fluid flow and heat transfer of liquid-liquid Taylor flow in square microchannels

A Abdollahi, SE Norris, RN Sharma - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The fluid flow and heat transfer of liquid-liquid Taylor flow in a square microchannel are
studied both experimentally and numerically using a three-dimensional numerical …

Splitting behaviors of droplets in fractal tree-shaped microchannels

S Wu, L Wu, J Chen, C Zhang, X Liu, Y Chen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Droplet splitting in fractal tree-shaped microchannels is studied experimentally in this work.
Four flow patterns of droplets splitting in fractal tree-shaped microchannels are distinguished …

Splitting dynamics of ferrofluid droplets inside a microfluidic T-junction using a pulse-width modulated magnetic field in micro-magnetofluidics

MA Bijarchi, M Dizani, M Honarmand, MB Shafii - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Micro-magnetofluidics offers a promising tool for better control over the ferrofluid droplet
manipulation which has been vastly utilized in biomedical applications in recent years. In …

Wettability-mediated dynamics of two-phase flow in microfluidic T-junction

MP Boruah, A Sarker, PR Randive, S Pati… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Fundamental understanding of two-phase flow and the concomitant implications of wall
wettability and viscosity are critical in areas like microfluidics and lab on chip applications. In …

[HTML][HTML] Map** flow-focusing microfluidic droplet formation to determine high-throughput droplet generation configurations

F Mardani, S Falahatian, M Taghipoor - Results in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Droplet microfluidics enables the generation of monodisperse droplets of desired size using
immiscible multiphase flows. These droplets serve as individual reactors in bio (chemical) …

Bubble breakup in a microfluidic T-junction

X Liu, C Zhang, W Yu, Z Deng, Y Chen - Science Bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
We conduct a computational fluid dynamics simulation to investigate the behaviors of bubble
breakup in a microfluidic T-junction using volume-of-fluid method to represent the interface …

Numerical insights into magnetic particle enrichment and separation in an integrated droplet microfluidic system

M Outokesh, HA Amiri, M Miansari - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Particle concentration and manipulation inside droplets hold great potential in expanding
lab-in-a-droplet applications ranging from biological to chemical assays. Herein, we present …