Divergent streamlines and free vortices in Newtonian fluid flows in microfluidic flow-focusing devices

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.386zbMath1275.76075OpenAlexW2097655021WikidataQ63461347 ScholiaQ63461347MaRDI QIDQ2863438

Mónica S. N. Oliveira, Fernando T. Pinho, Manuel A. Alves

Publication date: 21 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/41326/

zbMATH Keywords

vortex dynamicsmicrofluidicslow-Reynolds-number flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

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