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A fluid dynamics video is linked to this article, which have been submitted to the Gallery of Fluid Motion as part of the 65th American Physical Society meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, held in San Diego, California, USA, over…
In this short paper we present a fluid dynamics video of the deformation of droplets when tilted on a motorized stage. This is a submission to the 2013 Gallery of Fluid Motion which is part of the 66th annual meeting of APS-DFD. The video…
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3D-printed microfluidic devices offer new ways to study fluid dynamics. We present the first clear visualization of vortex breakdown in a dividing T-junction flow. By individual control of the inflow and two outflows, we decouple the…
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