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    Viscoelastic Drop Deformation in a Micro-Contraction

    Malcolm R. Davidson1, Dalton J.E. Harvie1

    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.7, No.3, pp. 317-328, 2011, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2011.007.317

    Abstract A volume-of-fluid numerical method, adapted by the authors [Harvie, Cooper-White and Davidson (2008)] to simulate the flow of viscoelastic fluids, is used to predict deformation of a viscoelastic droplet carried by an immiscible Newtonian liquid through an axisymmetric microfluidic contraction-expansion. Values of the capillary number and elasticity number are chosen based on corresponding values for a rectangular contraction for which a reentrant cavity at the rear of the drop and subsequent encapsulation behaviour was observed experimentally by Harvie, Cooper-White and Davidson (2008). A reentrant cavity, similar to the observed one, is predicted; however, encapsulation is More >

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