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Scaling the drop size in coflow experiments

Castro-Hernandez et al., 2009

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7381598707177382126
Author
Castro-Hernandez E
Gundabala V
Fernández-Nieves A
Gordillo J
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New Journal of Physics

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We perform extensive experiments with coflowing liquids in microfluidic devices and provide a closed expression for the drop size as a function of measurable parameters in the jetting regime that accounts for the experimental observations; this expression works irrespective of …
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