Vortex‐assisted electroosmotic mixing of Carreau fluid in a microchannel

SK Mehta, PK Mondal - Electrophoresis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pertaining to the mixing of the non‐Newtonian Carreau fluid under electrokinetic actuation
inside a plane microchannel, we propose a new design of micromixer that involves inserting …

[HTML][HTML] Electroosmotic flow and heat transfer of a hybrid nanofluid in a microchannel: A structural optimization

P Barnoon - International Journal of Thermofluids, 2023 - Elsevier
In microchannels where there is a change in the direction of flow, the difference in path
length between the inner and outer walls or boundaries can play an effective role in …

Significance of gyrotactic microorganisms on the MHD tangent hyperbolic nanofluid flow across an elastic slender surface: Numerical analysis

KAM Alharbi, M Bilal, A Ali, SM Eldin… - Nanotechnology …, 2023 - degruyter.com
In the current study, we numerically analyze the significance of motile microbes on the
magnetohydrodynamic steady convective streams of tangent hyperbolic (TH) nanofluid flow …

Electroosmotic mixing of viscoplastic fluids in a microchannel

SK Mehta, PK Mondal - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Viscoplastic fluids flow through a microfluidic channel having a built-in two-part cylinder
inside, while the upstream and downstream parts of the cylinder bear the surface potential of …

Effects of hydrophobic slips in non-uniform electrokinetic transport of charged viscous fluid in nozzle-diffuser

M Majhi, AK Nayak, S Sahoo - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The mixing efficiency and electro-osmotic flow enhancement over a hydrophobic structured
microchannel with nozzle-diffuser under an external electric field is studied. The interfacial …

Transient heat transfer and electro-osmotic flow of Carreau–Yasuda non-Newtonian fluid through a rectangular microchannel

S Ghorbani, A Emamian, A Amiri Delouei… - International Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate heat transfer and electrokinetic non-
Newtonian flow in a rectangular microchannel in the developed and transient states …

The electrokinetic energy conversion analysis of viscoelastic fluid under the periodic pressure in microtubes

X Gao, G Zhao, N Li, J Zhang, Y Jian - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a theoretical analysis for the streaming potential and the electro-kinetic energy
conversion (EKEC) efficiency of the viscoelastic fluid in a circular microchannel driven by …

The effect of heterogeneous surface charges on mixing in a combined electroosmotic/pressure-driven micromixer

A Farahinia, J Jamaati, H Niazmand… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a numerical investigation of electro-osmotic flow in heterogeneous
microchannels employing the approximate Helmholtz-Smoluchowski model in which the …

Long-Range ACEO Phenomena in Microfluidic Channel

D Dutta, K Smith, X Palmer - Surfaces, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic devices are increasingly utilized in numerous industries, including that of
medicine, for their abilities to pump and mix fluid at a microscale. Within these devices …

Numerical analysis of the heterogeneity effect on electroosmotic micromixers based on the standard deviation of concentration and mixing entropy index

A Farahinia, J Jamaati, H Niazmand, W Zhang - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
One approach to achieve a homogeneous mixture in microfluidic systems in the quickest
time and shortest possible length is to employ electroosmotic flow characteristics with …