Concentration enhancement of sample solutes in a sudden expansion microchannel with Joule heating

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 53, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 2722-2731

  Ge, Zhengwei ^a   Yang, Chun ^a   Tang, Gongyue ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Electrokinetic mass transport; Joule heating; Microfluidics; Temperature gradient focusing

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BUFFER CONCENTRATIONS; CHANNEL SIZES; CONCENTRATION OF; ELECTROKINETIC MASS TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; MICRO DEVICES; NUMBER EFFECTS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC EFFECTS; SAMPLE CONCENTRATION; SCALING ANALYSIS; STEP CHANGES; SUDDEN EXPANSION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT FOCUSING; TIME-SCALES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRODYNAMICS; FOCUSING; HEATING; JOULE HEATING; MASS TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77949908591     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.02.033     Document Type: Article

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