Numerical study of thermocoalescence of microdroplets in a microfluidic chamber

• Main Authors: Ho, Peng Ching, Nguyen, Nam-Trung
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101158; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18301
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The present paper reports the numerical investigation of thermocoalescence of droplets in a microchannel network consisting of a droplet formation section connecting to a temperature-induced merging chamber. The numerical model is formulated as an incompressible immiscible two-phase flow problem wit...