In this work, a series of experiments and numerical simulations performed using volume-of-fluid approach were carried out to investigate the flow miscible viscous fluid systems through microfluidic focusing devices with one central inlet stream (with “fluid 1”) two lateral streams 2”). The combined effect viscosity ratio velocity on characteristics focused outlet was assessed in channels differ...

5.1 Chapter Summary Bicomponent fibers, in the range of 100 nm to a few microns, of miscible poly(vinylchloride)/segmented polyurethane (PVC/Estane) and immiscible poly(vinyl chloride)/poly(vinylidienefluoride) (PVC/PVDF) were produced respectively by electrospinning two polymer solutions in a side-by-side approach. For each of the pairs investigated, PVC/Estane and PVC/PVDF, energy dispersive ...

We present different ways, coming from Finite Volume or Mixed Finite Element frameworks, to discretize convection terms in Hybrid Finite Volume, Mimetic Finite Difference and Mixed Finite Volume methods for elliptic equations. We compare them through several numerical tests, and we present an application to a system modeling miscible flows in porous media.

An equation that relates the g h transition temperature, TE, and a binary interaction parameter, x, for miscible binary polymer blends was derived. The equation including no adjustable parameters was based on a thermodynamic mixing formalism using enthalpy as the thermodynamic parameter. The enthalpy of mixing was written as a van Laar expression, and the T, was formally treated as a second-ord...