Thermocapillary actuation of a water droplet encapsulated in an oil plug

• 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/10356/94427; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7844
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reports the theoretical and experimental results of thermocapillary actuation of silicon oil plugs with encapsulated water droplet inside a capillary tube. The paper first describes the analytical models for this actuation concept. The model considers periodic actuation based on heat tran...