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Concentrated phase emulsion with multicore morphology under shear: A numerical study

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Recent microfluidic experiments have been capable of designing highly ordered multiple emulsions. Understanding the fluid-structure interaction occurring in these systems is crucial for their manufacturing in devices of interest in material science and biotechnology. Here it is shown that, under shear flow, multiple emulsions exhibit a variety of nonequilibrium states, whose formation essentially depends on internal vorticity and multibody collisions among droplets.

Source: Physical Review Fluids

DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.5.113606

Authors: A. Tiribocchi, A. Montessori, F. Bonaccorso, M. Lauricella, S. Succi

Institutions: Italian Institute of Technology, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation

Subfield: Biomedical Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Research Council, Horizon 2020

Awards: G3217123600, G784490837