Multiphase Microfluidics: The Diffuse Interface Model

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mauri, Roberto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: CISM Courses and Lectures, 538
• Subjects: Engineering.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Fluid mechanics.; Nanotechnology.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

Multiphase flows are typically described assuming that the different phases are separated by a sharp interface, with appropriate boundary conditions. This approach breaks down whenever the lengthscale of the phenomenon that is being studied is comparable with the real interface thickness, as it happ...