Electro-osmotic and Pressure-Driven Flow in an Eccentric Microannulus

Autor: Nurhan Kaplan, F. Talay Akyildiz, Abeer F.A. AlSohaim
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 74:513-521
ISSN: 1865-7109
0932-0784
Popis: Consideration is given to steady, fully developed mixed electro-osmotic/pressure-driven flow of Newtonian fluid in an eccentric microannulus. The governing Poisson–Boltzmann and momentum equations are solved numerically in bipolar coordinates. It is shown that for a fixed aspect ratio, fully eccentric channels sustain the maximum average viscosity (i.e. flow rate) under the same dimensionless pressure gradient and electro kinetic radius. For the Debye–Hückel approximation (linearised Poisson–Boltzmann equation), we show that closed-form analytical solution can be derived for velocity field. Finally, the effect of the electrokinetic radius, pressure gradient, and eccentricity on the flow field was investigated in detail.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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