Effect of Flow Confinement

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Parameters influencing the droplet production have been focused, and they can be reassumed in strong effects of flow confinement driven by presence of the microchannels, the importance of the evolution of the pressure field during the process of formation of a droplet, and separation of time seales between the slow evolution of the interface during breakup and fast equilibration of the shape of the interfaee via capillary waves and of the pressure field in the fluids via acoustic waves. 

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