Electrization of dielectric liquids flowing in tubes

Autor: L. T. Chernyi, V. N. Pribylov
Rok vydání: 1980
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Zdroj: Fluid Dynamics. 14:844-849
ISSN: 1573-8507
0015-4628
DOI: 10.1007/bf01051985
Popis: The methods of the mechanics of continuous media [1] are used to consider the problem of electrization of dielectric liquids flowing in tubes [2–6]. According to modern ideas [2–6], there is always dissolved in such liquids a slight admixture of an electrolyte, whose molecules in such a dilute solution dissociate to a certain extent into positively and negatively charged ions. On the walls, oxidizing and reducing reactions take place, as a result of which the negative and positive ions, respectively, give up to the wall surplus electrons or take missing electrons from it. Thus, a positive (respectively, negative) total electric charge is induced in the liquid by the flow. We consider in this paper the electrization of a dielectric liquid in laminar flow in a circular cylindrical tube. We find the distribution of the electric charge in the liquid, the maximal electric current, and the dependence of the length over which the distribution of the electric charge in the tube is established on the tube radius, the Debye radius of the liquid, and the Peclet diffusion number.
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