Combined effect of surface roughness and heterogeneity of wall potential on electroosmosis in microfluidic/nanofuidic channels

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 0411031-04110311

  Bhattacharyya, S ^a   Nayak, A K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Micromixer; Numerical solution; Overpotential; Vortex strength

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL WALL; COMBINED EFFECT; ELECTROKINETIC FLOWS; INERTIAL EFFECT; IONIC DISTRIBUTION; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MICRO MIXERS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; MOLE FRACTION; NERNST-PLANCK EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OVERPOTENTIAL; POISSON-BOLTZMANN; PRESSURE CORRECTION; RECIRCULATIONS; TORTUOUS PATH; TRANSPORT RATE; VORTEX STRENGTH; VORTICAL FLOWS; WALL POTENTIAL; WALL ROUGHNESS;

ALGORITHMS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955282779     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001308     Document Type: Article

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