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LAB ON A CHIP
卷 18, 期 7, 页码 1035-1046出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7lc01283g
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- Sinergia for the Multiphase Flow Electro-chemical Reactors (MFERS) project [CRSII5_173860]
- Nano-Tera Initiative for the Solar Hydrogen Integrated Nano Electrolyzer (SHINE) project [20NA21-145936]
- ERC [SIMCOMICS 280117]
- Swedish Research Council [2015-06334]
Inertial microfluidics is an active field of research that deals with crossflow positioning of the suspended entities in microflows. Until now, the majority of the studies have focused on the behavior of rigid particles in order to provide guidelines for microfluidic applications such as sorting and filtering. Deformable entities such as bubbles and droplets are considered in fewer studies despite their importance in multiphase microflows. In this paper, we show that the trajectory of bubbles flowing in rectangular and square microchannels can be controlled by tuning the balance of forces acting on them. A T-junction geometry is employed to introduce bubbles into a microchannel and analyze their lateral equilibrium position in a range of Reynolds (1 < Re < 40) and capillary numbers (0.1 < Ca < 1). We find that the Reynolds number (Re), the capillary number (Ca), the diameter of the bubble ((D) over bar), and the aspect ratio of the channel are the influential parameters in this phenomenon. For instance, at high Re, the flow pushes the bubble towards the wall while large Ca or (D) over bar moves the bubble towards the center. Moreover, in the shallow channels, having aspect ratios higher than one, the bubble moves towards the narrower sidewalls. One important outcome of this study is that the equilibrium position of bubbles in rectangular channels is different from that of solid particles. The experimental observations are in good agreement with the performed numerical simulations and provide insights into the dynamics of bubbles in laminar flows which can be utilized in the design of flow based multiphase flow reactors.
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