Dynamic Behaviours of Monodisperse Double Emulsion Formation in a Tri-Axial Capillary Device

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Dai, Yuchen
Cha, Haotian
Nguyen, Nhat-Khuong
Ouyang, Lingxi
Galogahi, Fariba
Yadav, Ajeet Singh
An, Hongjie
Zhang, Jun
Ooi, Chin Hong
Nguyen, Nam-Trung
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2022
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We investigated experimentally, analytically, and numerically the formation process of double emulsion formations under a dripping regime in a tri-axial co-flow capillary device. The results show that mismatches of core and shell droplets under a given flow condition can be captured both experimentally and numerically. We propose a semi-analytical model using the match ratio between the pinch-off length of the shell droplet and the product of the core growth rate and its pinch-off time. The mismatch issue can be avoided if the match ratio is lower than unity. We considered a model with the wall effect to predict the size of the matched double emulsion. The model shows slight deviations with experimental data if the Reynolds number of the continuous phase is lower than 0.06 but asymptotically approaches good agreement if the Reynolds number increases from 0.06 to 0.14. The numerical simulation generally agrees with the experiments under various flow conditions.

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Micromachines

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13

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11

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DE210100692

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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Microfluidics and nanofluidics

Nanotechnology

computational fluid dynamics

core–shell droplet

double emulsion

dripping regime

microfluidics

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Dai, Y; Cha, H; Nguyen, N-K; Ouyang, L; Galogahi, F; Yadav, AS; An, H; Zhang, J; Ooi, CH; Nguyen, N-T, Dynamic Behaviours of Monodisperse Double Emulsion Formation in a Tri-Axial Capillary Device, Micromachines, 2022, 13 (11), pp. 1877-1877

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