Droplets and bubbles in microfluidic devices

SL Anna - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Precise, tunable emulsions and foams produced in microfluidic geometries have found wide
application in biochemical analysis and materials synthesis and characterization. Superb …

Two-phase flow and mass transfer in microchannels: A review from local mechanism to global models

C Yao, Y Zhao, H Ma, Y Liu, Q Zhao, G Chen - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microreaction technology is preferential in process intensification and chemical synthesis,
especially in multiphase applications. A thorough understanding of the hydrodynamics and …

Hydrodynamics of a droplet passing through a microfluidic T-junction

Y Chen, Z Deng - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
We develop a phase-field multiphase lattice Boltzmann model to systematically investigate
the dynamic behaviour of a droplet passing through a microfluidic T-junction, especially …

Benchmark numerical simulations of segmented two-phase flows in microchannels using the Volume of Fluid method

DA Hoang, V van Steijn, LM Portela, MT Kreutzer… - Computers & …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an extensive analysis of the performance of the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method,
as implemented in OpenFOAM, in modeling the flow of confined bubbles and droplets …

Emulsions in porous media: From single droplet behavior to applications for oil recovery

A Perazzo, G Tomaiuolo, V Preziosi, S Guido - Advances in colloid and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Emulsions are suspensions of droplets ubiquitous in oil recovery from underground
reservoirs. Oil is typically trapped in geological porous media where emulsions are either …

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 …

Multiphase processes with ionic liquids in microreactors: hydrodynamics, mass transfer and applications

C Yao, Y Zhao, G Chen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Microreaction technology is an important technology for process intensification and high
efficient chemical synthesis. The use of ionic liquids (ILs) as novel reaction media is another …

Dynamics of droplet breakup in a T-junction

DA Hoang, LM Portela, CR Kleijn… - Journal of Fluid …, 2013 - cambridge.org
The breakup of droplets due to creeping motion in a confined microchannel geometry is
studied using three-dimensional numerical simulations. Analogously to unconfined droplets …

Numerical study of droplet formation in the ordinary and modified T-junctions

X Li, L He, Y He, H Gu, M Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This work presents a flexible manipulation solution on droplet formation based on the
modified T-junction with a rectangular rib to reduce the droplet size and improve …

Step-emulsification in a microfluidic device

Z Li, AM Leshansky, LM Pismen, P Tabeling - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a comprehensive study of the step-emulsification process for high-throughput
production of colloidal monodisperse droplets. The 'microfluidic step emulsifier'combines a …