Capillary pinching in a pinched microchannel
Capillary pinching in a pinched microchannel
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收缩微通道中的毛细管收缩
DOI:
10.1063/1.2709704
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
F. Plouraboué
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文献类型:
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作者:
O. Amyot;F. Plouraboué
We report a study of the capillary pinching of a gas bubble by a wetting liquid inside a pinched channel. The capillary pinching induces very reproducible bubbling, at a very well-defined frequency. There are two regimes associated with drip and jet bubbling. In the latter, we show that highly monodispersed bubbles are formed by our pinched channel. The dynamics of the bubble formation also shows two distinct regimes: a long-duration elongation of the air bubble and a rapid relaxation of the interface after interface breakup. The slow regime depends on the flux imposed and the channel geometry. The rapid deformation dynamic regime depends very weakly on the boundary conditions. Scaling arguments are proposed in the context of the lubrication approximation to describe the two regimes.