Toward high net velocities in AC electroosmotic micropumps based on asymmetric coplanar electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1679-1691

  Červenka, Petr ^a   Hrdlička, Jiří ^a   Přibyl, Michal ^a   Šnita, Dalimil ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

AC electroosmosis; electrokinetics; mathematical modeling; Poisson equation

Indexed keywords

AC ELECTROOSMOSIS; CO-PLANAR ELECTRODES; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER; ELECTRODE SIZE; ELECTROKINETICS; ELECTROOSMOTIC; ENTIRE DOMAIN; FLOW REVERSALS; GAP SIZE; GEOMETRY CHARACTERISTICS; JOULE HEATING EFFECT; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MICRO PUMP; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL VALUES; SLIP MODEL; SPATIAL DOMAINS;

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON EQUATION; PUMPS;

ELECTROOSMOSIS;

EID: 77956935955     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2057394     Document Type: Article

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