Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics

Autores
Freytes, Verónica Mariana; Rosen, Marta; D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo
Año de publicación
2018
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We report a study of droplet generation in two phase flows of non-miscible fluids in a T-shaped array of circular channels, at the mesoscale between micro- and milli-fluidics. Our experiments show that the balance between the different types of forces (capillary forces, shear viscous forces, etc.) may differ significantly from that found by previous authors in smaller, microfluidics channels. The results may, therefore, be applied to practical systems in which droplets act as small chemical reactors or help enhance mixing. We suggest a possible interesting extension to the generation of drops inside porous media. We report experiments in which the length of the droplets and the residual thickness of the surrounding fluid film are systematically measured as a function of the respective flow rates of the two fluids: These results are carefully compared to theoretical models taking into account in different ways the capillary and viscous effects and to results obtained by other authors for smaller channels. Several dimensionless control variables are tested (capillary number, ratio of the flow rates of the two fluids, etc.). Capillary film thickness is shown to be a useful variable to identify the different regimes of formation. Testing of the theoretical models with the experimental data showed that the change from one formation regime to the other is accompanied by a change in the role of viscous effects. Two models of breakup mechanisms were tested: on the one hand, the pressure buildup mechanism and, on the other hand, a second mechanism corresponds to the balance of tangential shear stresses and interfacial tension. According to the formation regimes, both models have provided satisfactory predictions of the experimental results. However, at this mesoscale, the experimental data were better described by the models dependent on the capillary number, as previously reported in systems with a low degree of confinement.
Fil: Freytes, Verónica Mariana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Rosen, Marta. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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POROUS MEDIA
DROPS
CAPILLARY EFFECTS
INTERFACIAL FLOWS
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spelling Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidicsFreytes, Verónica MarianaRosen, MartaD'onofrio, Alejandro GustavoPOROUS MEDIADROPSCAPILLARY EFFECTSINTERFACIAL FLOWShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.7https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2We report a study of droplet generation in two phase flows of non-miscible fluids in a T-shaped array of circular channels, at the mesoscale between micro- and milli-fluidics. Our experiments show that the balance between the different types of forces (capillary forces, shear viscous forces, etc.) may differ significantly from that found by previous authors in smaller, microfluidics channels. The results may, therefore, be applied to practical systems in which droplets act as small chemical reactors or help enhance mixing. We suggest a possible interesting extension to the generation of drops inside porous media. We report experiments in which the length of the droplets and the residual thickness of the surrounding fluid film are systematically measured as a function of the respective flow rates of the two fluids: These results are carefully compared to theoretical models taking into account in different ways the capillary and viscous effects and to results obtained by other authors for smaller channels. Several dimensionless control variables are tested (capillary number, ratio of the flow rates of the two fluids, etc.). Capillary film thickness is shown to be a useful variable to identify the different regimes of formation. Testing of the theoretical models with the experimental data showed that the change from one formation regime to the other is accompanied by a change in the role of viscous effects. Two models of breakup mechanisms were tested: on the one hand, the pressure buildup mechanism and, on the other hand, a second mechanism corresponds to the balance of tangential shear stresses and interfacial tension. According to the formation regimes, both models have provided satisfactory predictions of the experimental results. However, at this mesoscale, the experimental data were better described by the models dependent on the capillary number, as previously reported in systems with a low degree of confinement.Fil: Freytes, Verónica Mariana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Rosen, Marta. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaAmerican Institute of Physics2018-10info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/98259Freytes, Verónica Mariana; Rosen, Marta; D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo; Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics; American Institute of Physics; Chaos; 28; 10; 10-2018; 1-91054-1500CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5033451info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1063/1.5033451info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:58:58Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/98259instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:58:58.543CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
title Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
spellingShingle Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
Freytes, Verónica Mariana
POROUS MEDIA
DROPS
CAPILLARY EFFECTS
INTERFACIAL FLOWS
title_short Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
title_full Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
title_fullStr Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
title_full_unstemmed Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
title_sort Capillary film and breakup mechanism in the squeezing to dripping transition regime at the mesoscale between micro and milli-fluidics
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Freytes, Verónica Mariana
Rosen, Marta
D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo
author Freytes, Verónica Mariana
author_facet Freytes, Verónica Mariana
Rosen, Marta
D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo
author_role author
author2 Rosen, Marta
D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv POROUS MEDIA
DROPS
CAPILLARY EFFECTS
INTERFACIAL FLOWS
topic POROUS MEDIA
DROPS
CAPILLARY EFFECTS
INTERFACIAL FLOWS
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.7
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We report a study of droplet generation in two phase flows of non-miscible fluids in a T-shaped array of circular channels, at the mesoscale between micro- and milli-fluidics. Our experiments show that the balance between the different types of forces (capillary forces, shear viscous forces, etc.) may differ significantly from that found by previous authors in smaller, microfluidics channels. The results may, therefore, be applied to practical systems in which droplets act as small chemical reactors or help enhance mixing. We suggest a possible interesting extension to the generation of drops inside porous media. We report experiments in which the length of the droplets and the residual thickness of the surrounding fluid film are systematically measured as a function of the respective flow rates of the two fluids: These results are carefully compared to theoretical models taking into account in different ways the capillary and viscous effects and to results obtained by other authors for smaller channels. Several dimensionless control variables are tested (capillary number, ratio of the flow rates of the two fluids, etc.). Capillary film thickness is shown to be a useful variable to identify the different regimes of formation. Testing of the theoretical models with the experimental data showed that the change from one formation regime to the other is accompanied by a change in the role of viscous effects. Two models of breakup mechanisms were tested: on the one hand, the pressure buildup mechanism and, on the other hand, a second mechanism corresponds to the balance of tangential shear stresses and interfacial tension. According to the formation regimes, both models have provided satisfactory predictions of the experimental results. However, at this mesoscale, the experimental data were better described by the models dependent on the capillary number, as previously reported in systems with a low degree of confinement.
Fil: Freytes, Verónica Mariana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Rosen, Marta. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: D'onofrio, Alejandro Gustavo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ingeniería. Departamento de Física. Grupo de Medios Porosos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description We report a study of droplet generation in two phase flows of non-miscible fluids in a T-shaped array of circular channels, at the mesoscale between micro- and milli-fluidics. Our experiments show that the balance between the different types of forces (capillary forces, shear viscous forces, etc.) may differ significantly from that found by previous authors in smaller, microfluidics channels. The results may, therefore, be applied to practical systems in which droplets act as small chemical reactors or help enhance mixing. We suggest a possible interesting extension to the generation of drops inside porous media. We report experiments in which the length of the droplets and the residual thickness of the surrounding fluid film are systematically measured as a function of the respective flow rates of the two fluids: These results are carefully compared to theoretical models taking into account in different ways the capillary and viscous effects and to results obtained by other authors for smaller channels. Several dimensionless control variables are tested (capillary number, ratio of the flow rates of the two fluids, etc.). Capillary film thickness is shown to be a useful variable to identify the different regimes of formation. Testing of the theoretical models with the experimental data showed that the change from one formation regime to the other is accompanied by a change in the role of viscous effects. Two models of breakup mechanisms were tested: on the one hand, the pressure buildup mechanism and, on the other hand, a second mechanism corresponds to the balance of tangential shear stresses and interfacial tension. According to the formation regimes, both models have provided satisfactory predictions of the experimental results. However, at this mesoscale, the experimental data were better described by the models dependent on the capillary number, as previously reported in systems with a low degree of confinement.
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