Physics-based statistical learning perspectives on droplet formation characteristics in microfluidic cross-junctions

JX Wang, W Yu, Z Wu, X Liu, Y Chen - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Size-controllable micro-droplets obtained in microfluidic cross-junctions are significant in
microfluidics. Modeling and predictions in microfluidic-based droplet formation …

Dual-directional small-sampling deep-learning modelling on co-flowing microfluidic droplet generation

JX Wang, J Qian, H Wang, M Sun, L Wu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
User-specified droplets generated by microfluidics are critical but requires intensive
expertise and much time. Stimulated by data boosts from microfluidic experiments, deep …

Analyzing drop coalescence in microfluidic devices with a deep learning generative model

K Zhu, S Cheng, N Kovalchuk, M Simmons… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Predicting drop coalescence based on process parameters is crucial for experimental
design in chemical engineering. However, predictive models can suffer from the lack of …

Systematic investigation of droplet generation at T-junctions

T Schneider, DR Burnham, J VanOrden, DT Chiu - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics has attracted much attention in recent years. For many droplet-based
applications, researchers want to predict the size of the droplets in a certain experimental …

Statistics of droplet sizes generated by a microfluidic device

TA Prileszky, BA Ogunnaike, EM Furst - AIChE Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of droplet sizes produced in a microfluidic T‐junction is modeled using the
gamma probability distribution. The proposed model is validated using physical insight from …

Generalised insights in droplet formation at T-junctions through statistical analysis

MLJ Steegmans, C Schroën, RM Boom - Chemical Engineering Science, 2009 - Elsevier
Though much experimental work has been done on droplet formation in microfluidic T-
junctions, the field is fragmented due to differences in channel dimensions, flow rates, and …

Mixing characterization of binary-coalesced droplets in microchannels using deep neural network

A Arjun, RR Ajith, S Kumar Ranjith - Biomicrofluidics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Real-time object identification and classification are essential in many microfluidic
applications especially in the droplet microfluidics. This paper discusses the application of …

CFD study of droplet formation in a cross-Junction microfluidic device: investigating the impact of outflow channel design and viscosity ratio

A Jafari, A Shamloo - Engineering Applications of Computational …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study employed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to investigate various regimes of
droplet formation in a square microfluidic cross-junction device. The first part of the study …

Experiment and prediction of droplet formation in microfluidic cross-junctions with different bifurcation angles

W Yu, X Liu, B Li, Y Chen - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2022 - Elsevier
A visualization experiment was conducted to study the formation of droplets in the cross-
junctions with various bifurcation angles. The squeezing, dripping, jetting, and threading …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning enhanced droplet microfluidics

C Barnes, AR Sonwane, EC Sonnenschein… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Machine learning has recently been introduced in the context of droplet microfluidics to
simplify the process of droplet formation, which is usually controlled by a variety of …