An algorithm for the simulation of electrohydrodynamic rigid particulate flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-42

  Hsu, H Y ^a   Sharma, N ^a,b   Patankar, Neelesh A ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b S C Johnson & Son Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectrophoresis; Direct numerical simulation; Distributed Lagrange multiplier; Electrohydrodynamics; Immersed boundary method; Rigid particulate flow; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; DC AND AC FIELDS; DIELECTROPHORESIS; DIELECTROPHORETIC; DISTRIBUTED LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; NANO-SCALE FABRICATION; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; RIGID PARTICLES; RIGID PARTICULATE FLOWS;

ALGORITHMS; COERCIVE FORCE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLOW SIMULATION; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 78650690078     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1247     Document Type: Article

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