Electro-osmotic flow and mixing in heterogeneous microchannels.
Analytical and numerical studies of secondary electro-osmotic flow (EOF) and its mixing in microchannels with heterogeneous zeta potentials are carried out in the present work. The secondary EOFs are analyzed by solving the Stokes equation with heterogeneous slip velocity boundary conditions. The analytical results obtained are compared with the direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. The secondary EOFs could transport scalar in larger areas and increase the scalar gradients, which significantly improve the mixing rate of scalars. It is shown that the heterogeneous zeta potentials could generate complex flow patterns and be used to enhance scalar mixing.
Zhang
Jin-bai
JB
LNM, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
He
Guo-wei
GW
Liu
Feng
F