Electrohydrodynamic flow in optoelectrostatic micropump: Experiment versus numerical simulation

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 615-622

  Adamiak, Kazimierz ^a   Mizuno, Akira ^b   Nakano, Michichiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Numazu Industrial Research Institute of Shizuoka Prefecture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational electrostatics; Electrohydrodynamics; Microfluidics; Micropumping

Indexed keywords

AC ELECTRIC FIELDS; BODY FORCES; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROSTATICS; CONDUCTIVE LIQUIDS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LASER IRRADIATIONS; MICRO PUMPS; MICROPUMPING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PUMPING EFFECTS;

DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; PUMPS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 64049087023     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2013555     Document Type: Article

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