title: Flow behavior of periodical electroosmosis in microchannel for biochips.
abstract: This paper presents an analytical solution for periodical electroosmotic flows in two-dimensional uniform microchannel based on Poisson-Boltzmann equations for electric double layer (EDL) and Navier-Stokes equation for incompressible viscous fluid. Analytical results indicate that the velocity of periodical electroosmosis strongly depends on Reynolds number Re=omegah(2)/nu, as well as on EDL properties and applied electric field. Slip velocity of EDL decreases as the Reynolds number increases. Electroosmotic velocity outside the EDL decreases, and lag phase angle of velocity increases as distance away from the channel wall increases. A wavelike velocity profile across the channel is found. An asymptotic solution for low Reynolds number is given in this paper. Periodical electroosmosis with low Reynolds has same velocity amplitude and a pluglike velocity profile as that of steady electroosmosis. Based on Debye-Hückel approximation, this paper also obtains a solution of periodical electroosmosis applicable to cases where the thickness of EDL is of the same order as half of channel width.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xianming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jiankang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D053841:Electroosmosis / Q000379:methods*; D046228:Microarray Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*