Effect of elasticity on the induced charge electro-osmotic mixing of viscoelastic fluids in a micromixer with a conductive cylinder

Y Wei, J Xu, J Li, W Yu, C Li - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Mixing of reagents in microfluidics is critical, and currently, the focus is on Newtonian fluids,
but these reagents are often viscoelastic fluids. In this study, a micromixer containing a …

Induced charge electro-osmotic mixing performance of viscoelastic fluids in microchannels with an electrically conductive plate

Y Wei, Y Chen, J Xu, J Li - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Micromixers have important applications in lab-on-a-chip, biomanufacturing, and chemical
engineering. In this study, a micromixer with a conductive barrier plate based on the induced …

Mixing performance of viscoelastic fluids in an induced charge electroosmotic micromixer with a conductive cylinder

Y Chen, J Li, Z Lv, Y Wei, C Li - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
Effective mixing at the microscale is crucial in bioengineering and chemical engineering. In
this study, the mixing of viscoelastic fluids described by the Oldroyd-B constitutive model in …

Thermal and rheological investigation of non-Newtonian fluids in an induced-charge electroosmotic micromixer

M Alipanah, M Hatami, A Ramiar - European Journal of Mechanics-B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microfluidic devices have drawn many researchers in the various fields of area such as
biomedical diagnostics, biological and chemical analysis. Among these applications …

Numerical simulation of electroosmotic mixing of non-Newtonian fluids in a micromixer with zeta potential heterogeneity

J Yang, Y Chen, C Du, X Guan, J Li - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reagent mixing for microchemical analysis is critical. Most biological fluids and polymer
solutions used in the biomedical field belong to the category of non-Newtonian fluids. In this …

Mixing performance of the induced charge electro-osmosis micromixer with conductive chamber edges for viscoelastic fluid

Y Chen, Z Lv, Y Wei, J Li - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Enhancing the micro-channel flow mixing is always a difficult problem. In this study, a
micromixer based on induced charge electro-osmosis is proposed. A T-shaped micromixer …

Effect of electrode positions on the mixing characteristics of an electroosmotic micromixer

HS Seo, YJ Kim - Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
In this study, an electrokinetic microchannel with a ring-type mixing chamber is introduced
for fast mixing. The modeled micromixer that is used for the study of the electroosmotic effect …

Induced-charge electroosmosis flow of viscoelastic fluids under different voltage arrangements

X Wang, H Xu, H Qi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Efficient mixing of chemical analysis reagents with laboratory samples at a microscale is a
key issue in numerous biomedical and chemical analyses but hardly to implement due to the …

Numerical investigation of electroosmotic mixing in a contraction–expansion microchannel

Y Gong, X Cheng - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electroosmotic micromixing is generally a highly desirable technique in microanalysis
systems due to its ability to mix fluids at the microliter level. Herein, a contraction-expansion …

High efficiency micromixing technique using periodic induced charge electroosmotic flow: a numerical study

M Alipanah, A Ramiar - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Micromixers due to their prominence in Lab-On-a-Chip (LOC), biomanufacturing and
chemical engineering applications are of great significances and emphases. In this paper, a …