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Date
2023-09-15Type
- Journal Article
Abstract
The behavior of confined suspensions of soft droplets under pressure-driven flow, passing an obstacle within a planar channel, is investigated by means of a mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann model capable of simulating soft non-coalescing droplets. The simulations reveal that the threshold of the pore size, below which the flux vanishes, is between 1 and 2 droplet diameters, and increases with the packing fraction. Moreover, we show that the classical Beverloo relation between the total flux and the pore size is not suitable for the soft suspensions considered here. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000618869Publication status
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Journal / series
Computers & FluidsVolume
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Publisher
ElsevierSubject
Soft suspensions; Lattice Boltzmann simulationsMore
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