Chaotic motion of microplugs under high-frequency thermocapillary actuation

• Main Authors: Jiao, Zhenjun, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Huang, Xiaoyang
• 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/10356/93882; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7849
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reports experimental results on chaotic motion of liquid plugs under high-frequency thermocapillary actuation. In the experiments, two heaters were alternately activated. The liquid plug was positioned in a glass capillary between these two heaters. The periodic temperature gradients gene...