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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Lab Chip. 2009 Nov 27;10(3):303–312. doi: 10.1039/b916380h

Table 1:

Parameter values employed in simulations. The length of the long (top) leg of the flow loop LLong = 1.98 mm. The driving pressure ΔP is chosen so that the transition from period-1 to higher orders of periodicity occurs at TinP+ = 1.04 sec, as in Fuerstman’s1 experimental investigation.

Bulk Fluid Viscosity μ
(g cm−1 sec −1)
Surface Tension γ
(dyn cm−1)
Fixed Tin Driving Pressure ΔP
(dyn cm−2)
Fixed ΔP p1 Transition Time TinP+
(sec)
Radius R
m)
Leg Length Ratio α
LShort/LLong
Baseline 0.0295 3.6 32547 1.03 50 0.9
Low γ 0.0295 1.8 19400 0.525 50 0.9
High μ 0.059 3.6 38800 2.18 50 0.9
Low R 0.0295 3.6 73800 4.50 25 0.9
Low α 0.0295 3.6 18600 0.415 50 0.75
High α 0.0295 3.6 38600 1.25 50 0.98