Chaotic mixing in electro-osmotic flows driven by spatiotemporal surface charge modulation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Chang, Chih Chang ^a   Yang, Ruey Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ELECTROOSMOSIS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MODULATION; NANOFLUIDICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SURFACE CHARGE;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE; CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIMENSIONLESS MIXING TIME; FIELD EFFECT CONTROLS; FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; PERMANENT SURFACE CHARGE; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SURFACE-CHARGE MODULATIONS;

MIXING;

EID: 66849128388     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3139162     Document Type: Article

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