This book comprehensively describes the tip streaming in simple fluids
and those containing surfactants and polymeric molecules. It
summarizes the theoretical models and approximations commonly adopted
to analyze this phenomenon. It provides relevant experimental results
and presents the scaling laws for rationalizing those results. The
stability of the flows leading to tip streaming is analyzed
theoretically and experimentally. Attention is paid to the effects of
surfactant monolayers and viscoelasticity, including
solutocapillarity, interfacial elasticity, surface viscosity, and
extensional thickening caused by the polymer coil-stretch transition.
It also offers an overall perspective of the numerous technological
applications of the tip-streaming phenomenon. Remarkable examples are
the production of microemulsions and microencapsulation of active
agents for the food and pharmacy industries, the atomization of
charged liquids for analytical chemistry, and the ejection of
ultra-fast and ultra-thin jets for crystallography. Physical
mechanisms responsible for the onset of tip streaming driven by
hydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic forces are described. Relevant
theoretical and experimental results of the periodic microdripping and
continuous microjetting modes of tip streaming produced with
microfluidic configurations such as electrospray, flow focusing,
coflowing, and selective withdrawal are discussed. The physical
mechanisms responsible for the instability of the microjetting mode
are studied in detail. The book collects the scaling laws used to
predict the outcome of the microfluidic configurations mentioned
above. The author combines state-of-the-art experimental results and
linear stability analysis to identify the instability mechanisms
limiting the applicability of the above-mentioned microfluidic
configurations. In this way, the book connects experimental
observations with fundamental aspects of tip streaming,bridging the
microfluidic and fluid dynamicist communities. The connection between
results obtained from the theoretical and experimental approaches will
help experimentalists to understand the fundamental aspects of their
practical problems. A useful guide for researchers working on
hydrodynamic focusing and electrospray.
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ISBN
9783031527685
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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