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Periodical streaming potential and electro-viscous effects

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  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics,Department of Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China

Received date: 2007-12-18

  Revised date: 2008-03-24

  Online published: 2008-06-18

Abstract

This paper presents an analytical solution to periodical streaming potential, flow-induced electric field and velocity of periodical pressure-driven flows in two-dimensional uniform microchannel based on the Poisson-Boltzmann equations for electric double layer and Navier-Stokes equation for liquid flow. Dimensional analysis indicates that electric-viscous force depends on three factors: (1) Electric-viscous number representing a ratio between maximum of electric-viscous force and pressure gradient in a steady state, (2) profile function describing the distribution profile of electro-viscous force in channel section, and (3) coupling coefficient reflecting behavior of amplitude damping and phase offset of electro-viscous force. Analytical results indicate that flow-induced electric field and flow velocity depend on frequency Reynolds number (Re = wh2/v). Flow-induced electric field varies very slowly with Re when Re < 1 , and rapidly decreases when Re<1. Electro-viscous effect on flow-induced electric field and flow velocity are very significant when the rate of the channel width to the thickness of electric double layer is small.

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GONG Lei;WU Jian-kang;WANG Lei;CHAO Kan . Periodical streaming potential and electro-viscous effects[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2008 , 29(6) : 715 -724 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-008-0603-7

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