期刊
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
卷 431, 期 -, 页码 50-63出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2014.05.070
关键词
Electro-osmotic flow; Lattice Boltzmann method; Mixing enhancement; Temperature-patterned walls; Thermo-electrochemical migration phenomenon
资金
- NSF grant of China [51176089]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20130002110077]
Mixing becomes challenging in microchannels because of the low Reynolds number. This study aims to present a mixing enhancement method for electro-osmotic flows in microchannels using vortices caused by temperature-patterned walls. Since the fluid is non-isothermal, the conventional form of NernstPlanck equation is modified by adding a new migration term which is dependent on both temperature and internal electric potential gradient. This term results in the so-called thermo-electrochemical migration phenomenon. The coupled Navier-Stokes, Poisson, modified Nernst-Planck, energy and advection-diffusion equations are iteratively solved by multiple lattice Boltzmann methods to obtain the velocity, internal electric potential, ion distribution, temperature and species concentration fields, respectively. To enhance the mixing, three schemes of temperature-patterned walls have been considered with symmetrical or asymmetrical arrangements of blocks with surface charge and temperature. Modeling results show that the asymmetric arrangement scheme is the most efficient scheme and enhances the mixing of species by 39% when the Reynolds number is on the order of 10(-3). Current results may help improve the design of micro-mixers at low Reynolds number. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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