Abstract
We present droplet formation in a T-junction microfluidic device in five different regimes of squeezing, dripping, transition, jetting and parallel. Droplet is created as a result of interaction of two immiscible liquids. Effects of Capillary number (Ca) and Reynolds number (Re) are investigated which changes the regime of droplet formation and creates rotational flow inside droplet, respectively. Simulations were done with the open source code Gerris using volume of fluid method and adaptive mesh refinement techniques in order to track interface properly. Two kinds of jetting regimes, i.e., stable and unstable, were simulated in this work. For higher Re number the parallel regime is observed so Re number is limited to 25. This study shows that the results of Re > 1 have some differences compared with those of Re 1 and Re < 1 which are due to wall shear stresses. Droplets with rotational flow can increase diffusivity, which is motivation of this work.
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