The electroosmotic flow through an annulus is analyzed under the situation when the two cylindrical walls carry high zeta potentials. The analytical solutions for the electric potential profile and the electroosmotic flow field in the annulus are obtained by solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation an
Electroosmotic Flows with Random Zeta Potential
β Scribed by James P. Gleeson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Volume
- 249
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9797
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β¦ Synopsis
The hydrodynamic problem of electroosmotic flow in a cylindrical capillary with random zeta potential is solved in the limit of small Deybe length and low Reynolds number. Averages are defined over multiple experiments and the mean axial velocity is found to be a plug flow. The variance of the velocity exhibits parabolic-like variation across the capillary. Average concentrations of samples transported by the flow are approximated by defining an effective diffusivity coefficient. Theoretical formulas for the average concentration are supported by numerical experiments.
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