Deformation and breakup dynamics of droplets within a tapered channel
Fluid Dynamics
2021-09-01 v1 Computational Physics
Abstract
In this paper we numerically investigate the breakup dynamics of droplets in an emulsion flowing in a tapered microchannel with a narrow constriction. The mesoscale approach for multicomponent fluids with near contact interactions is shown to capture the deformation and breakup dynamics of droplets interacting within the constriction, in agreement with experimental evidences. In addition, it permits to investigate in detail the hydrodynamic phenomena occurring during the breakup stages. Finally, a suitable deformation parameter is introduced and analyzed to characterize the state of deformation of the system by inspecting pairs of interacting droplets flowing in the narrow channel.
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@article{arxiv.2108.01993,
title = {Deformation and breakup dynamics of droplets within a tapered channel},
author = {Andrea Montessori and Michele La Rocca and Pietro Prestininzi and Adriano Tiribocchi and Sauro Succi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.01993},
year = {2021}
}