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Numerical pancake droplets: from capturing to versatile microfluidics

Nagel, Mathias  
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Gallaire, François  
2012
Proceedings of European Conference on Microfluidics
3rd European Conference on Microfluidics 2012

This article proposes a numerical model for microfluidic two-phase flows in flat channels, also called Hele-Shaw cells. The initially three-dimensional problem is simplified to two-dimensions by depth averaging in the thin direction. The 2D partial differential equation is then numerically solved using the Boundary Element Method (BEM), which leads to an efficient algorithm for the evolution of free interface problems. Using this method we investigate a flow in a flat microchannel, where a droplet driven by a carrier fluid becomes anchored to a hole, placed in one of the channel walls. The numerical method is compared to experiments and a model with analytic solution. These examples demonstrate that the model equation and the numerical scheme are basically able to describe flow in simple three-dimensional geometries.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Nagel, Mathias  
Gallaire, François  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

SOCIETE HYDROTECHNIQUE DE FRANCE

Publisher place

Paris

Published in
Proceedings of European Conference on Microfluidics
Volume

3

Issue

107

Start page

1

End page

10

Subjects

Brinkman equation

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Boundary Element Method

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Two-phase flow

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Hele-Shaw cell

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LFMI  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
3rd European Conference on Microfluidics 2012

Heidelberg

December 3-5, 2012

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