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Materials, Vol. 13, Pages 944: Experimental Studies of Microchannel Tapering on Droplet Forming Acceleration in Liquid Paraffin/Ethanol Coaxial Flows (Materials)
 


The formations of micro-droplets are strongly influenced by the local geometries where they are generated. In this paper, through experimental research, we focus on the roles of microchannel tapering in the liquid paraffin/ethanol coaxial flows in their flow patterns, flow regimes, and droplet parameters, i.e., their sizes and forming frequencies. For validity, the non-tapering coaxial flows (the convergence angle α = 0 ? ) are investigated, the experimental methods and experimental data are examined and analyzed by contrasting the details with previous works, and consistent results are obtained. We consider a slightly tapering microchannel (the convergence angle α = 2 . 8 ? ) and by comparison, the experiments show that the tapering has significant effects on the flow patterns, droplet generation frequencies, and droplet sizes. The regimes of squeezing, dripping, jetting, tubing, and threading are differentiated to shrink toward the coordinate origin of the C a c – W e d space. The closer it is to the origin, the less variations will occur. For the adjacent regimes of the origin, i.e., dripping and squeezing, slight changes have occurred in both flow patterns, as well as the droplet characters. In the dripping and squeezing modes, the liquid droplets are generated near the orifice of the inner tube. Their forming positions (geometry) and flow conditions are almost the same. Therefore, the causes of minute changes in such regimes are physically understandable. While in the jetting regimes, the droplets shrink in size and their forming frequencies increase. The droplet sizes and the frequencies are both linearly related to those of the non-tapering cases with the corresponding relations derived. Furthermore, the threading and the tubing patterns almost did not emerged in the non-tapering data, as it seemed easier to form elongated jets, thinning or widening, in the tapered tubes. This can be explained by the stable analysis of the coaxial jets, which indicates that the reductions in the microchannel diameters can suppress the development of the interface disturbances.


 
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