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Production of Liquid Metal Micro-droplets and Electrical Control of their Size and Rate of Formation
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Kebriaee, Azadeh (Supervisor)
Abstract
The use of liquid metal droplets due to their high electrical and thermal conductivity are used in various industries today. One of the methods of producing these micro-droplets is the flow focusing method, which is widely used to produce integrated and monodispersed droplets. Liquid metals have high surface tension and these micro-droplets are formed only if there is sufficient shear force between the liquid metal and a continuous fluid phase. In the past, they used several different methods such as pressure fluctuations and changes in continuous phase flow rate to control the shear force and produced polymer, gas, etc. micro-droplets.In this research, use the electric potential to control...
Numerical investigation of droplets breakup in a microfluidic T-junction
, Article Applied Mechanics and Materials ; Volume 110-116 , 2012 , Pages 3269-3277 ; 16609336 (ISSN) ; 9783037852620 (ISBN) ; Moosavi, A ; Int. Assoc. Comput. Sci. Inf. Technol. (IACSIT) ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
Abstract
A Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is used to stdy the breakup of droplets in T-junction geometries. Symmetric T-junctions, which are used to produce equal size droplets and have many applications in pharmacy and chemical industries, are considered. Two important factors namely "breakup time" and "breakup length" that can improve the performance of these systems have been introduced. In addition a novel system which consists of an asymmetric T-junction is proposed to produce unequal size droplets. The effects of the channel width ratio and the capillary number on the size and length of the generated droplets and also the time of the generation have been studied and discussed. For simulation the...
A multiphysics model for analysis of droplet formation in electrohydrodynamic 3D printing process
, Article Journal of Aerosol Science ; Volume 135 , 2019 , Pages 72-85 ; 00218502 (ISSN) ; Movahhedy, M. R ; Khodaygan, S ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2019
Abstract
Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing is a novel technology used for fabricating high-resolution part features from a wide range of materials. Due to the multiphysics dynamics and the multiphase nature of the microdroplet formation in the EHD printers, modeling of this phenomenon is complicated. In this paper, the formation of a droplet in an EHD printer—under a pulsed electrical field—is simulated using a new numerical model which couples the fluid flow, the electric field distribution and the movement of the electric charges under dynamic and transient conditions. The level-set method is applied to the entire multiphysics domain in order to study the formation of the droplet. The presented...