Effect of wall slip on the viscoelastic particle ordering in a microfluidic channel.

Autor: D'Avino G; Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, Naples, 80125, Italy., Maffettone PL; Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, Naples, 80125, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Electrophoresis [Electrophoresis] 2022 Nov; Vol. 43 (21-22), pp. 2206-2216. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 25.
DOI: 10.1002/elps.202200117
Abstrakt: The formation of a line of equally spaced particles at the centerline of a microchannel, referred as "particle ordering," is desired in several microfluidic applications. Recent experiments and simulations highlighted the capability of viscoelastic fluids to form a row of particles characterized by a preferential spacing. When dealing with non-Newtonian fluids in microfluidics, the adherence condition of the liquid at the channel wall may be violated and the liquid can slip over the surface, possibly affecting the ordering efficiency. In this work, we investigate the effect of wall slip on the ordering of particles suspended in a viscoelastic liquid by numerical simulations. The dynamics of a triplet of particles in an infinite cylindrical channel is first addressed by solving the fluid and particle governing equations. The relative velocities computed for the three-particle system are used to predict the dynamics of a train of particles flowing in a long microchannel. The distributions of the interparticle spacing evaluated at different slip coefficients, linear particle concentrations, and distances from the channel inlet show that wall slip slows down the self-assembly mechanism. For strong slipping surfaces, no significant change of the initial microstructure is observed at low particle concentrations, whereas strings of particles in contact form at higher concentrations. The detrimental effect of wall slip on viscoelastic ordering suggests care when designing microdevices, especially in case of hydrophobic surfaces that may enhance the slipping phenomenon.
(© 2022 The Authors. Electrophoresis published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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