in the first part of this thesis we explored wetting and its dynamics for small droplets.
first, we showed how a simple feature of water droplets on a surface, i.e. laplace
pressure, can be exploited to build a micropump. we investigated capillary pumping
in microchannels both experimentally and numerically. putting two droplets of
different sizes at the in/outlet of a microchannel, will ge...
