Drop Traffic in Microfluidic Ladder Networks with Fore-Aft Structural Asymmetry

Details Drop Traffic in Microfluidic Ladder Networks with Fore-Aft Structural Asymmetry Drop Traffic in Microfluidic Ladder Networks with Fore-Aft Structural Asymmetry

2011-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/1111.5845v3

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

4 pages, 5 figures

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We investigate the dynamics of pairs of drops in microfluidic ladder networks with slanted bypasses, which break the fore-aft structural symmetry. Our analytical results indicate that unlike symmetric ladder networks, structural asymmetry introduced by a single slanted bypass can be used to modulate the relative drop spacing, enabling them to contract, synchronize, expand, or even flip at the ladder exit. Our experiments confirm all these behaviors predicted by theory. Numerical analysis further shows that while ladder networks containing several identical bypasses are limited to nearly linear transformation of input delay between drops, mixed combination of bypasses can cause significant non-linear transformation enabling coding and decoding of input delays.

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