Numerical study of droplet breakup in an asymmetric T-junction microchannel with different cross-section ratios

Milad Isanejad and Keivan Fallah
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Milad Isanejad: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
Keivan Fallah: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2022, vol. 33, issue 02, 1-16

Abstract: In this study, numerical simulations are conducted to investigate droplet breakup in an asymmetric T-junction microchannel with different cross-section ratios. To this approach, a two-phase model based on the volume of fluid (VOF) method is adopted to study the three-dimensional feature of droplet motion inside T-junctions. The comparison reveals that the present results are in good agreement with previous studies. The effects of the capillary number (Ca), the non-dimensional droplet length (L∗), and the non-dimensional width ratio (W∗) on the breakup time and splitting ratio of daughter droplets are studied. Five distinct regimes are observed involving the non-breakup, breakup with tunnel, breakup without tunnel, asymmetric breakup, and sorting. Achieved results indicate that the time of breakup (tbreakup∗) increases about 15% when the Ca is increased from 0.0134 to 0.0268 (about 100%). It is also found that the mass center of the mother droplet in the primary channel is shifted to a larger wide branch, which facilitates the asymmetric breakup of the droplet in a T-junction microchannel.

Keywords: Two-phase flow; asymmetric T-junction; microchannel; droplet breakup (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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