Journal article
Mixing properties of steady flow in thermocapillary driven droplets
Physics of fluids (1994), v 19(6), pp 067102-067102-12
01 Jun 2007
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Abstract
We consider mixing via chaotic advection in microdroplets suspended at the free surface of a liquid substrate and driven along a straight line using the thermocapillary effect. With the help of a model derived by Grigoriev [Phys. Fluids
17, 033601 (2005)] we show that the mixing properties of the flow inside the droplet can vary dramatically as a function of the physical properties of the fluids and the imposed temperature profile. Proper characterization of the mixing quality requires introduction of two different metrics. The first metric determines the relative volumes of the domain of chaotic streamlines and the domain of regular streamlines. The second metric describes the time for homogenization inside the chaotic domain. We compute both metrics using perturbation theory in the limit of weak temperature dependence of the surface tension coefficient at the free surface of the substrate.
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- Title
- Mixing properties of steady flow in thermocapillary driven droplets
- Creators
- Dmitri L. Vainchtein - Georgia Institute of TechnologyJohn Widloski - Georgia Institute of TechnologyRoman O. Grigoriev - Georgia Institute of Technology
- Publication Details
- Physics of fluids (1994), v 19(6), pp 067102-067102-12
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- 0400370 / NSF 06-01-00117 / RFBR
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- C. and J. Nyheim Plasma Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000247625900026
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-34447328719
- Other Identifier
- 991021862311204721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Mechanics
- Physics, Fluids & Plasmas