Submitted for the DFD12 Meeting of The American Physical Society Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) based Microfluidics for Particle and Droplet Manipulation YE AI, BABETTA L. MARRONE, Advanced Measurement Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA — Acoustics has emerged as one of the most promising non-invasive techniques for particle and droplet manipulation in micro...

The design of strategies to generate efficient mixing is crucial for a variety of applications, particularly digital microfluidic devices that use small “discrete” fluid volumes (droplets) as fluid carriers and microreactors. In recent work, we have presented an approach for the generation and control of mixing inside a translating spherical droplet. This was accomplished by considering Stokes’...

Abstract In this paper interparticle potential model of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to simulate deformation and breakup of a falling droplet under gravity force. First this model is applied to ensure that the surface tension effect is properly implemented in this model. Two tests have been considered. First, it has been checked an initial square drop in a 2D domain can freely def...

for evaluation of citric acid and citrate effects on bovine epididymal protoplasmic droplets, fifty bovine testes were collected in the october 2007 till june 2008 from urmia slaughterhouse and transported to the laboratory in a cool container filled with 5 °c ice pack. caudal epididymis was incised and sperm cells were put into petri dishes containing hams f10 media with 10% fetal calf serum (...

Microfluidic droplet generators offer distinctive advantages to create emulsions that cannot be matched by conventional methods such as membrane or batch emulsification[1]. Since microfluidic droplets are created in a confined and controlled space in a chip, they can be used as micro-reactors to perform delicate chemical reactions that take advantage of the scaling laws associated with miniatur...

In this paper the dynamic of a droplet on a surface with a hole is investigated under gravitational effect by using lattice Boltzmann method. Incompressible two-phase flow with high density ratio proposed by Lee is considered. Cahn’s theory is used to observe the wettability of the surface in contact with liquid and gas phases. Several parameters such as contact angle, surface tension and gravi...