Transition from squeezing to dripping in a microfluidic T-shaped junction

By M. D. Menech, Piotr Garstecki, F. Jousse, Howard A. Stone. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Formation and manipulation of ferrofluid droplets at a microfluidic T-junction (2010, background): “The flow rates were chosen to cover the transition from the squeezing to dripping regime [65, 66, 67].”
• Production of uniform droplets using membrane, microchannel and microfluidic emulsification devices (2012, background): “Within squeezing regime, the droplet size is a function of the ratio of the flow rates of the two fluids and does not depend significantly on the interfacial tension (De Menech et al., 2008) or the viscosities of the two liquids (De Menech et al., 2008).”
• Effect of geometry on droplet formation in the squeezing regime in a microfluidic T-junction (2010, methodology): “It is assumed, for simplicity, that the two liquids have similar densities, which are given by q. Accordingly, the problem can be described in terms of the following dimensional and physical parameters: wc; wd; h; Uc; Ud; l c ; l d ; r and q. Based on these nine parameters, we can define six indepen”
• Microfluidic Devices for Drug Delivery Systems and Drug Screening (2018, background): “Three central regimes of droplet formation in T‐junctions are distinguished based on the capillary number: dripping, jetting and squeezing [49].”
• Microfluidic Production of Multiple Emulsions (2017, background): “Due to excessive compressive force from the continuous phase, the dispersed phase neck is squeezed until it pinches off into drops [86,98,99], as shown in Figure 2f.”
• Squeezing-to-dripping transition for bubble formation in a microfluidic T-junction (2010, background): “de Menech et al. (2008) simulated the dynamics of breakup of streams of immiscible fluids in the confined microfluidic T-junction and concluded that:”