@inproceedings{a5f80813a706406db6de9aca7f00273d,
title = "A Study of Microfluidic Device Geometries on Fluid Instabilities",
abstract = "This effort is focused on studying fluid instabilities in microfluidic devices using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis to provide preliminary data for suborbital microgravity flight experiments. The experiments will utilize a lens-free imaging (LFI) system to capture and measure fluidic data. Various CFD models were created using Star-CCM+ to determine predicted Saffman-Taylor (viscous fingering patterns) instabilities in microfluidic devices using liquids with opposite viscosities. Lab data shows that channel height and inlet nozzle angles of the devices are dominant in the changing behavior of the instabilities. This study will focus on these parameters to further validate CFD results. It is expected that the device geometries will have a large impact on fluid instabilities in the microfluidic domain.",
author = "\{Le Henaff\}, Sylvain and Taylor Peterson and Candice Hovell and Jeremy Mares and Melanie Coathup and Veerle Reumers and Michael Kinzel",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 by ASME.; ASME 2022 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM 2022 ; Conference date: 03-08-2022 Through 05-08-2022",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1115/FEDSM2022-87470",
language = "English (US)",
series = "American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division (Publication) FEDSM",
publisher = "American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)",
booktitle = "Multiphase Flow (MFTC); Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFDTC); Micro and Nano Fluid Dynamics (MNFDTC)",
}