Search Results - "Vega, E J"
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Influence of the Surface Viscosity on the Breakup of a Surfactant-Laden Drop
Published in Physical review letters (13-01-2017)“…We examine both theoretically and experimentally the breakup of a pendant drop loaded with an insoluble surfactant. The experiments show that a significant…”
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Numerical and experimental analyses of multiple-dowel steel-to-timber joints in tension perpendicular to grain
Published in Engineering structures (01-10-2009)“…The behaviour of dowel-type steel-to-timber joints loaded in tension perpendicular to grain is analyzed experimentally and numerically. Two main types of…”
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Generation of micro-sized PDMS particles by a flow focusing technique for biomicrofluidics applications
Published in Biomicrofluidics (01-01-2016)“…Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), due to its remarkable properties, is one of the most widely used polymers in many industrial and medical applications. In this…”
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The effects of ambient impurities on the surface tension
Published in EPJ Web of Conferences (01-01-2016)“…A liquid bridge is a liquid column held captive between two coaxial and parallel solid disks. It is an excellent test bench where measuring the surface…”
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On the precision of optical imaging to study free surface dynamics at high frame rates
Published in Experiments in fluids (01-08-2009)“…The precision of optical imaging to study free surface dynamics is analyzed. The damping of a liquid bridge free surface oscillation is used to validate this…”
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A novel technique for producing metallic microjets and microdrops
Published in Microfluidics and nanofluidics (2013)“…A new technique for producing steady metallic jets is proposed. It allows the production of supercritical jets with Weber numbers well below unity, which…”
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Sub-micrometer precision of optical imaging to locate the free surface of a micrometer fluid shape
Published in Journal of colloid and interface science (01-11-2009)“…We evaluate the precision of optical imaging for measuring the free surface position of a micrometre fluid shape. The deviations with respect to the expected…”
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Suppressing prompt splash with polymer additives
Published in Experiments in fluids (01-05-2017)“…Splash suppression during drop impact continues to be a grand challenge. To date, only a few techniques for the complete suppression of splash exist. Reducing…”
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A Conductive Gel for the Plotting of Equipotential Lines
Published in Physics education (01-07-2015)“…This paper presents the development of a conductive gel that can be used to measure the electrical potential differences on its surface, and has enough…”
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Effectiveness of a On-site Medicalization Program for Nursing Homes With COVID-19 Outbreaks
Published in The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (01-03-2021)“…Abstract Background Nursing homes are highly vulnerable to the occurrence of COVID-19 outbreaks, which result in high lethality rates. Most of them are not…”
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Numerical simulation of electrospray in the cone-jet mode
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (01-08-2012)“…We present a robust and computationally efficient numerical scheme for simulating steady electrohydrodynamic atomization processes (electrospray). The main…”
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Fast, flexible and low-cost multiphase blood analogue for biomedical and energy applications
Published in Experiments in fluids (2020)“…During the last two decades, several kinds of particulate blood analogue fluids have been proposed, but none of those were able to mimic the multiphase effects…”
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Death risk stratification in elderly patients with covid-19. A comparative cohort study in nursing homes outbreaks
Published in Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (01-11-2020)“…[Display omitted] •Elderly people living in nursing-homes are at high-risk of suffering COVID-19.•Scarce information about their death-risk scoring is…”
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Stabilization of axisymmetric liquid bridges through vibration-induced pressure fields
Published in Journal of colloid and interface science (01-03-2018)“…[Display omitted] Previous theoretical studies have indicated that liquid bridges close to the Plateau-Rayleigh instability limit can be stabilized when the…”
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Erratum: Influence of the Surface Viscosity on the Breakup of a Surfactant-Laden Drop [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 024501 (2017)]
Published in Physical review letters (02-03-2018)“…This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.024501…”
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A simple emulsification technique for the production of micro-sized flexible powder of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)
Published in Powder technology (15-04-2020)“…A simple mass production emulsification technique was used to fabricate powder of flexible microparticles of PDMS. The insertion of a membrane/filter between…”
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Gaseous flow focusing for spinning micro and nanofibers
Published in Polymer (Guilford) (12-09-2019)“…We apply the gaseous flow focusing principle to produce fibers of polyvinylpyrrolidone down to the nanometer scale. The polymer solution is injected in front…”
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The production of viscoelastic capillary jets with gaseous flow focusing
Published in Journal of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics (01-03-2016)“…•We study the production of viscoelastic jets with gaseous flow focusing.•The jetting regime is reached for an interval of the capillary-to-orifice…”
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Exploring the precision of backlight optical imaging in microfluidics close to the diffraction limit
Published in Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation (01-08-2011)“…► We detect liquid free surfaces close to the diffraction limit by optical imaging. ► We analyze images of liquid films over a capillary of 10 microns in…”
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A novel technique to produce metallic microdrops for additive manufacturing
Published in International journal of advanced manufacturing technology (01-02-2014)“…In additive manufacturing (AM), three-dimen sional objects are built layer by layer by joining each layer to the previous one. Those layers can be formed from…”
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