Comparison of the jet breakup and droplet formation between non-Newtonian and Newtonian fluids

S Mousavi, M Siavashi, M Bagheri - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Jet breakup and droplet formation are used in various applications including the production
of pharmaceutical microcapsules, biomedical sensors, lab-on-chips, and more. Many of …

Numerical insights on controlled droplet formation in a microfluidic flow-focusing device

SG Sontti, A Atta - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this article, we have developed a computational model to determine the droplet formation
regime and its transition in a square microfluidic flow-focusing device that eventually dictate …

Regulation of droplet size and flow regime by geometrical confinement in a microfluidic flow-focusing device

SG Sontti, A Atta - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed a coupled level set and volume of fluid-based computational fluid
dynamics model to analyze the droplet formation mechanism in a square flow-focusing …

Droplet generation at Hele-Shaw microfluidic T-junction

I Chakraborty, J Ricouvier, P Yazhgur, P Tabeling… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We proposed the combined numerical and experimental study of the dynamics of droplets
generation at shallow microfluidic T-junction, where the flow is strongly confined in the …

Electrospray modes of liquids in electrohydrodynamic atomization: A review

Z Wang, Y Chen, J Xue, B Li, J Wang, Q Dong - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid is sprayed from a capillary tube and further disperses into fine drops in various
means, when subjected to an externally electric field, where the process of liquid jet …

A three dimensional coupled VOF and Level set (VOSET) method with and without phase change on general curvilinear grids

Z Cao, J Zhou, A Liu, D Sun, B Yu, J Wei - Chemical Engineering Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract A 3D coupled VOF and LS method (VOSET) on general curvilinear grids is
developed for two-phase flow simulations in complex domains. The evolution of volume …

Microfluidic device for high-throughput production of monodisperse droplets

P Gelin, I Bihi, I Ziemecka, B Thienpont… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In this study, we present a novel microfluidic device for high-throughput production of
monodisperse droplets. The proposed 3D-emulsifier consists of multiple parallel droplet …

Microfluidic step-emulsification in axisymmetric geometry

I Chakraborty, J Ricouvier, P Yazhgur, P Tabeling… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Biphasic step-emulsification (Z. Li et al., Lab Chip, 2015, 15, 1023) is a promising
microfluidic technique for high-throughput production of μm and sub-μm highly …

A coupled volume-of-fluid and level set method based on multi-dimensional advection for unstructured triangular meshes

Z Cao, D Sun, J Wei, B Yu - Chemical Engineering Science, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a coupled volume-of-fluid and level set (VOSET) method for
unstructured triangular meshes to simulate incompressible two phase flows. In the method, a …

A coupled volume-of-fluid and level set (VOSET) method based on remapping algorithm for unstructured triangular grids

Z Cao, D Sun, B Yu, J Wei - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose a coupled volume-of-fluid and level set (VOSET) method for interfacial flow
simulations on unstructured triangular grids. In this method, the volume fraction advection is …