TY - EJOU AU - Cristini, V. AU - Renardy, Y. TI - Scalings for Droplet Sizes in Shear-Driven Breakup: Non-Microfluidic Ways to Monodisperse Emulsions T2 - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing PY - 2006 VL - 2 IS - 2 SN - 1555-2578 AB - We review studies of a drop of viscous liquid, suspended in another liquid, and undergoing breakup in an impulsively started shear flow. Stokes flow conditions as well as the effects of inertia are reported. They reveal a universal scaling for the fragments, which allows one to use sheared emulsions to produce monodispersity as an alternative to microfluidic devices. KW - Drop deformation KW - drop size distribution KW - numerical methods DO - 10.3970/fdmp.2006.002.077