Generation of microbubbles with applications to industry and medicine

J Rodríguez-Rodríguez, A Sevilla… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We provide a comprehensive and systematic description of the diverse microbubble
generation methods recently developed to satisfy emerging technological, pharmaceutical …

Hydrodynamics and mass transfer in gas‐liquid flows in microreactors

P Sobieszuk, J Aubin… - Chemical engineering & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last ten to fifteen years, microreaction technology has become of increased interest
to both academics and industrialists for intensification of multiphase processes. Amongst the …

On the combined effects of surface tension force calculation and interface advection on spurious currents within volume of fluid and level set frameworks

T Abadie, J Aubin, D Legendre - Journal of Computational Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the comparison of Eulerian methods to take into account the capillary
contribution in the vicinity of a fluid–fluid interface. Eulerian methods are well-known to …

Slug flow heat transfer without phase change in microchannels: A review

T Bandara, NT Nguyen, G Rosengarten - Chemical Engineering Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Two-phase flow without phase change can radically increase the heat transfer rate in
microchannels due to the internal recirculation of the fluids. In this paper, both numerical and …

An online method to measure mass transfer of slug flow in a microchannel

C Yao, Z Dong, Y Zhao, G Chen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Physical absorption of CO 2 bubbles under slug flow has been studied in a T-junction
microchannel. Based on the absorption rate of gas bubbles, an online photographic method …

Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics modelling of oxygen bubble transport in polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzer porous transport layers

F Arbabi, H Montazeri, R Abouatallah… - Journal of the …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract A three-dimensional (3D), two-phase numerical model was developed and
presented as a useful tool for investigating oxygen bubble propagation in porous transport …

Effect of channel size on liquid‐liquid plug flow in small channels

D Tsaoulidis, P Angeli - AIChE Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrodynamic properties of plug flow were investigated in small channels with 0.5‐, 1‐,
and 2‐mm internal diameter, for an ionic liquid/aqueous two‐phase system with the …

Two-phase flow and morphology of the gas–liquid interface for bubbles or droplets in different microchannels

C Chen, Z Jing, C Feng, X Zou, M Qiao, D Xu… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Two-phase interface fluid, bubble or droplet, has shown broad application potential in oil
and gas field development, contaminated soil remediation, and medical treatment. These …

Formation of liquid–liquid slug flow in a microfluidic T‐junction: Effects of fluid properties and leakage flow

C Yao, Y Liu, C Xu, S Zhao, G Chen - AIChE Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Characteristics of liquid–liquid slug flow are investigated in a microchannel with focus on the
leakage flow that bypasses droplets through channel gutters. The results show that the …

Characteristics of slug flow with inertial effects in a rectangular microchannel

Y Chaoqun, Z Yuchao, Y Chunbo, D Minhui… - Chemical Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
Slug flow behavior and characteristics have been studied in a rectangular microchannel with
Y-junction. Two simple bubble shape models are proposed to calculate the film thickness …