Affiliation:
1. SERB Sponsored Microfluidics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University , Kolkata 700032, India
Abstract
We numerically investigate the effect of electrohydrodynamics on a non-Newtonian droplet pair suspended in a Newtonian medium. The leaky dielectric model is implemented to study the response of emulsion drops in an externally applied electric field. Subsequently, the non-Newtonian drop behavior is incorporated using the power law model, whereby three different fluid behaviors are considered for the drops: Newtonian, Shear thinning, and Shear thickening. We validated our numerical model with the available literature data, and the results are in good agreement. The droplets' deformation and net motion are investigated for a range of electrical permittivity ratios of the droplet medium with respect to the surrounding fluid. In this study, four distinct regimes are identified based on the net drop pair motion and the circulation pattern that develops due to the electric stresses inside and around the drops. Furthermore, it is observed that the droplet deformation and their net motion are fastest for the pseudo-plastic drops and slowest for dilatant drops. We devised a simple ratio-based model to understand this behavior. The inferences drawn from this study will help contribute to a better understanding of the behavior of nonlinear fluids under an electric field.
Funder
All India Council for Technical Education
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanics of Materials,Computational Mechanics,Mechanical Engineering
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2 articles.
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