The multilayer microchannel flow is a promising tool in microchannel-based systems such as hybrid microfluidics. To assist in the efficient design of two-liquid pumping system, a two-fluid electroosmotic flow of immis...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11902165 and 11772162);the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China(No.2019BS01004);the Inner Mongolia Grassland Talent of China(No.12000-12102408)。
Curved channels are ubiquitous in microfluidic systems.The pressure-driven electrokinetic flow and energy conversion in a curved microtube are investigated analytically by using a perturbation analysis method under th...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11772162,11802147);the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia(No.2018LH01015);the Foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region University Scientific Research Project(No.NJZY18093);the Foundation of Inner Mongolia University of Technology(No.ZD201714)。
In this work,the effects of externally applied axial pressure gradients and transverse magnetic fields on the electrokinetic energy conversion(EKEC)efficiency and the streaming potential of nanofluids through a microa...
Project supported by Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB);Department of Science and Technology,Government of India,New Delhi(No.CRG/2018/000153)
A comprehensive theoretical study of entropy generation during electroki-netically driven transport of a nanofluid is of prime concern in the paper. The flow is considered to take place on a wavy channel under the act...
supported in part by the Australian Research Council through a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award to Qiang SUN
We develop a mathematical model to describe the flow in a microchannel driven by the upper stretching wall of the channel in the presence of electrokinetic effects. In this model, we avoid imposing any unphysical boun...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10902105);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Grant No. 2010R10014)
In this study, the irreversible deposition of microparticles from electrokinetic microfluidic flow in a 90° bend was exami- ned both computationally and theoretically. The flow and electric fields were firstly simula...
Support by the National Science Council of Taiwan (Grant Nos. NSC 96-2221-E- 167-031-MY2, NSC 96-2622-E-167-006-CC3, and NSC97-3114-E-167-001)
The electrokinetic instability(EKI) phenomenon occurs when microfluidic flows with an electrical conductivity gradient are driven by a high-intensity external electrical field. Although EKI limits the robust performan...