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Area of Science:

  • Fluid dynamics
  • Microfluidics
  • Machine learning applications

Background:

  • Non-Newtonian droplets are crucial in pharmaceuticals, food processing, and drug delivery.
  • Predicting droplet formation with these complex fluids is challenging due to multiphase interactions and varying properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel hybrid machine learning architecture for predicting flow rates in non-Newtonian droplet generation.
  • To accommodate shear-rate-dependent viscosities and estimate elastic properties.

Main Methods:

  • Integration of dimensional analysis with machine learning.
  • Development of a hybrid model to predict dispersed and continuous phase flow rates based on droplet dimensions and fluid viscosity curves.

Main Results:

  • Achieved R-squared values up to 0.82 for unseen data, demonstrating strong predictive power.
  • The model accurately predicts flow rates for droplets with specified sizes, even with deviations in fluid properties from training data.

Conclusions:

  • The developed model generalizes across diverse non-Newtonian systems with varying viscosity curves.
  • This offers a powerful tool for optimizing droplet generation and advances machine learning applications in microfluidics for efficient experimental design.