Numerical models for AC electroosmotic micropumps

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2179-2189

  Pribyl, Michal ^a   Adamiak, Kazimierz ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AC electroosmosis; computational electrostatics; electrohydrodynamics; microfluidics; micropumping

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; AC ELECTROOSMOSIS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CO-PLANAR ELECTRODES; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROSTATICS; DEBYE LAYER; DIELECTRIC WALLS; ELECTROOSMOTIC; ELECTROOSMOTIC PUMPING; ION CONCENTRATIONS; MICRO PUMP; MICROPUMPING; MOMENTUM BALANCES; NUMERICAL FORMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; SPACE CHARGES; TIME AVERAGES; TIME DOMAIN; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

DISSOCIATION; DOMAIN WALLS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROOSMOSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; POISSON EQUATION; PUMPS; SOLUTIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78649361560     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2074170     Document Type: Article

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