Reciprocating thermocapillary plug motion in an externally heated capillary

• Main Authors: Jiao, Zhenjun, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Huang, Xiaoyang, Ang, Yi Zhen
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93877; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7826
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reports the concept and experimental results of reciprocating thermocapillary motion of a liquid plug in microchannels. This paper first describes a one-dimensional analytical model for the transport of microplugs in a capillary. The model considers the coupling effect between heat transf...