Numerical analysis of field-modulated electroosmotic flows in microchannels with arbitrary numbers and configurations of discrete electrodes

Biomedical Microdevices

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 959-966

  Chao, Kan ^a   Chen, Bo ^a   Wu, Jiankang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electric double layer; Fluid mixing; Micro vortices; Microchannel; Modulated electroosmotic flow

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FIELD; ARBITRARY NUMBER; CHANNEL WALL; CIRCULATION FLOW; DOUBLE ELECTRODES; ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW; FLUID MIXING; ION CONCENTRATIONS; ION TRANSPORTS; LIQUID FLOW; LIQUID SOLIDS; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICRO-VORTICES; NERNST-PLANCK EQUATIONS; NONLINEARLY COUPLED; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SINGLE ELECTRODES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROOSMOSIS; LIQUIDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON EQUATION;

MICROCHANNELS;

ARTICLE; DISCRETE ELECTRODE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROOSMOSIS; FIELD MODULATED ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW RATE; ION TRANSPORT; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROCHANNEL; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATION; NERNST EQUATION; POISSON EQUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOSITY;

ELECTRODES; ELECTROOSMOSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 78049236434     PISSN: 13872176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10544-010-9450-1     Document Type: Article

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