Hydrodynamically mediated breakup of droplets in microchannels

• Main Authors: Che, Zhizhao, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Wong, Teck Neng
• 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/10356/94555; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7757
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A flow focusing junction is integrated into a microchannel to break up droplets into a controllable number and size of daughter droplets. High speed images of the breakup at the flow focusing junction show that the breakup depends on the interplay between interfacial tension, shear force on the inte...