Journal
ACTA MECHANICA SINICA
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 534-542Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-013-0051-0
Keywords
Hydromechanics; Micro-parallel plates; Electric double layer (EDL); Unsteady EOF/PDF; Two-layer Newtonian fluids
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11062005, 11202092]
- Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, the Program for Young Talents of Science and Technology in Universities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region [NJYT-13-A02]
- Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia [2010BS0107, 2012MS0107]
- Research Start Up Fund for Excellent Talents at Inner Mongolia University [Z20080211]
- Natural Science Key Fund of Inner Mongolia [2009ZD01]
- Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Inner Mongolia
- Enhancing Comprehensive Strength Project of Inner Mongolia University [14020202]
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By method of the Laplace transform, this article presents semi-analytical solutions for transient electroosmotic and pressure-driven flows (EOF/PDF) of two-layer fluids between microparallel plates. The linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the Cauchy momentum equation have been solved in this article. At the interface, the Maxwell stress is included as the boundary condition. By numerical computations of the inverse Laplace transform, the effects of dielectric constant ratio E >, density ratio rho, pressure ratio p, viscosity ratio A mu of layer II to layer I, interface zeta potential difference , interface charge density jump Q, the ratios of maximum electro-osmotic velocity to pressure velocity alpha, and the normalized pressure gradient B on transient velocity amplitude are presented. We find the velocity amplitude becomes large with the interface zeta potential difference and becomes small with the increase of the viscosity. The velocity will be large with the increases of dielectric constant ratio; the density ratio almost does not influence the EOF velocity. Larger interface charge density jump leads to a strong jump of velocity at the interface. Additionally, the effects of the thickness of fluid layers (h (1) and h (2)) and pressure gradient on the velocity are also investigated.
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