电弧喷涂熔滴速度分布有限元分析

基于双流体模型,并采用ANSYS/CFD分析了Al、Zn丝材电弧喷涂熔滴颗粒拟流体的空间速度分布规律。结果表明:喷涂压力的提高能够显著增大熔滴颗粒拟流体的速度;双流体混合粘度系数μmix是影响其空间速度分布的重要因素。     

空气阻力系数对水滴运动及蒸发的影响

应用喷灌条件下水滴的运动、蒸发及分布模型对水滴的飞行时间、飞行距离以及蒸发率进行了预测,并对5种空气阻力系数计算公式 （Bird、Park、Fukui、伊沙叶夫、Wallis） 求得的预测值和实测值进行了比较。结果表明：应用Bird、Wallis、Fukui公式预测的水滴飞行时间与实测值随水滴直径的变化趋势一致,应用Park和伊沙叶夫公式求得的水滴飞行时间预测值与实测值的相对误差最小;5种阻力系数公式均能较准确地预测水滴飞行距离,其中Park公式的预测精度最高;5种阻力系数公式对于单个水滴蒸发率的预测结果与实测值之间的平均相对误差在26.1%~30.2%之间;5种阻力系数公式对总蒸发率的预测影响不明显,预测值与实测值之间的平均相对误差在15.2%~17.5%之间。建议在水滴运动和蒸发计算中采用Park阻力系数公式。     

液滴冲击流动液膜的格子Boltzmann模拟

采用单相格子Boltzmann方法模拟了二维液滴冲击流动液膜的含自由面的流动过程。由定义的质量与密度的比例系数来追踪气液自由面的变化。表面张力通过计算界面格点处作用在流体上的汽液相间作用力加入到模型中。数值模拟了速度比(液膜流动速度与液滴撞击速度的比值)和液膜相对厚度(液膜实际厚度与液滴直径的比值)不同时,液滴冲击流动液膜的过程。与液滴冲击静止液膜时的计算结果和理论分析结果进行对比,分析了液滴冲击流动液膜后产生的流动现象及其内在机理,产生的水花的铺展半径和溅起高度随时间的变化规律,并讨论了飞溅产生条件。     

Numerical simulation of cloud droplet formation in a tank

Using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code FLUENT 6 together with the fine particle model (FPM), numerical simulations of droplet dynamics in a 12.4 m³ cloud tank were conducted. The coupled fields of water vapor, temperature, flow velocity, particle number concentration, and particle mass concentration inside the cloud tank were computed.The system responses to changes of the wall's temperature and mass fraction of water vapor, respectively, were investigated. Typical times for mixing the cloud tank's contents are in the range of some tens of seconds. The maximum volume-averaged deviations from the mean of temperature and mass fraction of water vapor are around 5% of the respective parameter changes applied to the wall.Time-dependent simulations were performed in order to study the growth of ammonium-sulfate particles in humid air at around room temperature. Supersaturation up to (S_w–1)=8.2×10⁻³ was achieved by the expansion of the gas. The particles were activated and grew rapidly to a maximum diameter of 5.2×10⁻⁶ m after critical supersaturation was reached. After S_w fell again below the equilibrium value, the particles shrank quickly and deactivated roughly 60 s after activation.The spatial inhomogeneities of temperature and water-vapor concentration cause volume-averaged deviations of the particle number N and diameter d_g of up to 2.3% and 36%, respectively.     

Glycyrrhetinic Acid Liposomes Encapsulated Microcapsules from Microfluidic Electrospray for Inflammatory Wound Healing

In diabetic wound healing, M1 macrophage accumulation and elevated inflammation are prevalent issues. Intelligent delivery systems that can sustainably release antioxidizing and anti-inflammatory ingredients are expected for effective wound healing. Herein, a novel glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) liposomes encapsulated microcapsules delivery system that has desired features for inflammatory wound repair is presented. As the bacteria could break down the alginate shells, the GA liposomes could be controllably released from the microcapsules, which promotes M2 macrophage polarization and regulate their responses in the inflammatory wound microenvironment. Based on these, it is demonstrated that the GA liposomes encapsulated microcapsules delivery system exhibits an anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effect for diabetic wound healing in a full-thickness defect model in diabetic rats. These results indicate that the immunomodulatory capabilities of the microcapsules can be unitized for efficient wound repair, and such a delivery system is valuable for clinical wound healing applications.     

Lossless,Passive Transportation of Low Surface Tension Liquids Induced by Patterned Omniphobic Liquidlike Polymer Brushes

Surfaces enabling directional liquid transportation are of great interest for a wide range of applications such as water collection, microfluidics, and heat transfer systems. Surfaces capable of lossless, long-range passive transportation of low surface tension (LST) liquids using wettability patterned, liquidlike coatings with minimal contact angle hysteresis are reported. Lossless LST droplet travel distances over 150 mm are achieved, enabled by a two-phase transportation mechanism: morphological transformation from a bulge to a channel shape, followed by directional transportation along the asymmetrical wedge-shaped channel. The developed surfaces can split, merge, and precisely transport various low-surface tension liquids, including alcohols, alkanes, and solvents. The developed transportation strategy can also enhance LST liquid dropwise condensation through continuous removal of the condensate, even on horizontally positioned surfaces without the assistance of gravity.     

Investigation on replication of microfluidic channels by hot embossing

In this study, effects of embossing temperature, time, and force on production of a microfluidic device were investigated. Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) substrates were hot embossed by using a micromilled aluminum mold. The process parameters were altered to observe the variation of replication rate in width and depth as well as symmetry of the replicated microfluidic channels. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) on the experimental results indicated that embossing temperature was the most important process parameter, whereas embossing time and force have less impact. One distinguishing aspect of this study is that, the channels were observed to be skewed to either side of the channel depending on the location of the protrusions on the mold. The mechanism of the skewness was investigated by finite element analysis and discussed in detail. Results showed that the skewness depends on the flow characteristics of the material and could be reduced by increasing the embossing temperature. The best replication rates were obtained at parameter settings of 115°C, 10?kN, and 8?min for the molds with minimum 56?µm wide features of 120?µm depth. We also showed that the fabricated channels could be successfully sealed by solvent-assisted thermo-compressive bonding at 85°C under 5.5?kN force.     

Fast Dynamic Visualizations in Microfluidics Enabled by Fluorescent Carbon Nanodots

Microfluidic systems have become a superior platform for explorations of fascinating fluidic physics at microscale as well as applications in biomedical devices, chemical reactions, drug delivery, etc. Exploitations of this platform are built upon the fundamental techniques of flow visualizations. However, the currently employed fluorescent materials for microfluidic visualization are far from satisfaction, which severely hinders their widespread applications. Here fluorescent carbon nanodots are documented as a game‐changer, applicable in versatile fluidic environment for the visualization in microfluidics with unprecedented advantages. One of the fastest fluorescent imaging speeds up to 2500 frames per second under a normal contionous wave (CW) laser line is achieved by adopting carbon nanodots in microfluidics. Besides better visualizations of the fluid or interface, fluorescent carbon nanodots‐based microparticles enable quantitative studies of high speed dynamics in fluids at microscale with a more than 90% lower cost, which is inaccessible by traditionally adopted fluorescent dye based seeding particles. The findings hold profound influences to microfluidic investigations and may even lead to revolutionary changes to the relevant industries.     

Passive Picoinjection Enables Controlled Crystallization in a Droplet Microfluidic Device

Segmented flow microfluidic devices offer an attractive means of studying crystallization processes. However, while they are widely employed for protein crystallization, there are few examples of their use for sparingly soluble compounds due to problems with rapid device fouling and irreproducibility over longer run‐times. This article presents a microfluidic device which overcomes these issues, as this is constructed around a novel design of “picoinjector” that facilitates direct injection into flowing droplets. Exploiting a Venturi junction to reduce the pressure within the droplet, it is shown that passive injection of solution from a side‐capillary can be achieved in the absence of an applied electric field. The operation of this device is demonstrated for calcium carbonate, where highly reproducible results are obtained over long run‐times at high supersaturations. This compares with conventional devices that use a Y‐junction to achieve solution loading, where in‐channel precipitation of calcium carbonate occurs even at low supersaturations. This work not only opens the door to the use of microfluidics to study the crystallization of low solubility compounds, but the simple design of a passive picoinjector will find wide utility in areas including multistep reactions and investigation of reaction dynamics.