Numerical study of electroosmotic micromixing of non-Newtonian fluids

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 166, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 965-971

  Hadigol, Mohammad ^a   Nosrati, Reza ^a   Nourbakhsh, Ahmad ^a   Raisee, Mehrdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electroosmotic micromixing; Heterogeneous microchannel; Numerical simulation; Power law fluid; Shear depending viscosity

Indexed keywords

BIOFLUIDS; CHANNEL WALL; DEGREE OF MIXING; ELECTRO-OSMOTIC FORCES; ELECTROOSMOTIC; FINITE VOLUME SCHEMES; FLUID BEHAVIOR; FLUID MIXING; HETEROGENEOUS MICROCHANNEL; HOMOGENEOUS SOLUTIONS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICRO-MIXING; MICRO-SCALES; MIXING EFFICIENCY; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN BEHAVIORS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; POWER LAW FLUID; PSEUDOPLASTIC FLUID; SHEAR DEPENDING VISCOSITY; SIMULATION RESULT; ZETA POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOSMOSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; MIXING; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW; ZETA POTENTIAL;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 79960595656     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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