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Inkjet Printing: Facing Challenges And Its New Applications In Coating Industry, Sadegh Poozesh
Inkjet Printing: Facing Challenges And Its New Applications In Coating Industry, Sadegh Poozesh
Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical Engineering
This study is devoted to some of the most important issues for advancing inkjet printing for possible application in the coating industry with a focus on piezoelectric droplet on demand (DOD) inkjet technology. Current problems, as embodied in liquid filament breakup along with satellite droplet formation and reduction in droplet sizes, are discussed and then potential solutions identified. For satellite droplets, it is shown that liquid filament break-up behavior can be predicted by using a combination of two pi-numbers, including the Weber number, We and the Ohnesorge number, Oh, or the Reynolds number, Re, and the Weber number, …