Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan UniversityTaipei 10617, Taiwan, Republic of China
Abstract
Mass transport driven by oscillatory electroosmotic flows (EOF) in a two-dimensional micro-channel is studied theoretically. The results indicate that the velocity and concentration distributions across the channel-width become more and more non-uniform as the Womersley number
W
, or the oscillation frequency, increases. It is also revealed that, with a constant tidal displacement, the total mass transport rate increases with the Womersley number
W
due to both the stronger convective and the transverse dispersion effects. The total mass transport rate also increases with the tidal displacement (with a fixed oscillation frequency) because of the associated stronger convective effects. The cross-over phenomenon of the mass transport rates for different species becomes possible with sufficiently large Debye lengths and at sufficiently large values of
W
. Consequently, with proper choices of the Debye length, oscillation frequency and tidal displacement, oscillatory EOF may become a good candidate for the first-step separation of the mass species.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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