Generation of Microbubbles with Applications to Industry and Medicine

  1. Javier Rodríguez 1
  2. Alejandro Sevilla Santiago 1
  3. Carlos Martínez Bazán 2
  4. Manuel Gordillo 3
  1. 1 1Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica y de Fluidos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  2. 2 Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Minera, Universidad de Jaén
  3. 3 3Departamento de Ingeniería Aeroespacial y Mecánica de Fluidos, Universidad de Sevilla
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Revista:
Annual review of fluid mechanics

ISSN: 0066-4189

Año de publicación: 2015

Número: 47

Páginas: 405-429

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV-FLUID-010814-014658 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Annual review of fluid mechanics

Resumen

We provide a comprehensive and systematic description of the diverse microbubble generation methods recently developed to satisfy emerging technological, pharmaceutical, and medical demands. We first introduce a theoretical framework unifying the physics of bubble formation in the wide variety of existing types of generators. These devices are then classified according to the way the bubbling process is controlled: outer liquid flows (e.g., coflows, cross flows, and flow-focusing flows), acoustic forcing, and electric fields. We also address modern techniques developed to produce bubbles coated with surfactants and liquid shells. The stringent requirements to precisely control the bubbling frequency, the bubble size, and the properties of the coating make microfluidics the natural choice to implement such techniques.

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