Order parameter description of electrochemical-hydrodynamic interactions in nanochannels.
A novel phase-field model is developed for the quantitative modeling of the complex electrochemical-hydrodynamic interactions in narrow fluidic confinements. Through an order parameter variation, this model captures the underlying excluded volume effects, solvation interactions, and preferential polarizabilities in a self-consistent fashion, without resorting to computationally prohibitive molecular dynamics simulations. Agreement with molecular dynamics predictions is found to be quantitative.
Chakraborty
Suman
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721302, India. suman@mech.iitkgp.ernet.in