Milli Fluidic Systems

An understanding of droplet traffic is essential for the further development of microfluidics.  In order to make large, complex systems capable of sorting large amounts of droplets, a thorough understanding of how droplets behave is necessary.  In order to better understand how droplets move throughout a microfluidic system, we used several mill fluidic systems as an analog to analyze droplet traffic. We analyzed several videos in order to obtain data pertinent to the understanding of droplet traffic, including droplet spacing, timing, and velocities.  Based on our results, we determined that using mill fluidic systems is a more efficient way to analyze droplet traffic because such systems are easier to work with and provide more results in a shorter amount of time than the microfluidic systems that had previously been used to study droplet traffic.  This will make the further study and application of droplet traffic easier, much faster and will allow much larger and more complex systems to be developed and understood.