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Formation and Deformation of Liquid Drops in Microchannels

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The laws of drop formation are experimentally studied in narrow horizontal microchannels with rectangular section with heights from 50 to 150 μm. It is shown that there exists a new flow regime when the drops in the form of vertical liquid bridges move along the microchannel. Three mechanisms of formation of such drops are distinguished: formation directly near the liquid nozzle, departure of drops from liquid moving at the lateral sides of channel, and drop formation due to destruction of severely deformed drops and horizontal liquid bridges. It is established that the deformation of drops increases with increasing Weber number. It is demonstrated that the drops begin to deform when the first critical value of the Weber number is achieved and begin to be destroyed when the second one is achieved.

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The work is supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 18-19-00407.

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  1. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    F. V. Ronshin, Yu. A. Dementyev & E. A. Chinnov

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Ronshin, F.V., Dementyev, Y.A. & Chinnov, E.A. Formation and Deformation of Liquid Drops in Microchannels. Tech. Phys. Lett. 46, 745–748 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785020080131

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