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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4867695
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- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
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Liquid droplets flowing through a rectangular microfluidic channel develop a vortical flow field due to the presence of shear forces from the surrounding fluid. In this paper, we present an experimental and computational study of droplet velocities and internal flow patterns in a rectangular pressure-driven flow for droplet diameters ranging from 0.1 to 2 times the channel height. Our study shows excellent agreement with asymptotic predictions of droplet and interfacial velocities for infinitesimally small droplets. As the droplet diameter nears the size of the channel height, the droplet velocity slows significantly, and the changing external flow field causes a qualitative change in the location of internal vortices. This behavior is relevant for future studies of mass transfer in microfluidic devices. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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