Induced-charge electrokinetics in microfluidics: A review on recent advancements

MKD Manshadi, M Mohammadi, M Zarei… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Applying an external electric field over a polarizable electrode or object within
microchannels can induce an electric double layer (EDL) around channel walls and create …

Recent advancement in induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena and their micro-and nano-fluidic applications

H Feng, H Chang, X Zhong, TN Wong - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Induced-charge electrokinetics (ICEK) remains a hot topic due to its promising applications
in micro-and nano-fluidics. Over the past decade, researchers have made a great …

Induced charge electro-osmotic mixing performance of viscoelastic fluids in microchannels with an electrically conductive plate

Y Wei, Y Chen, J Xu, J Li - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Micromixers have important applications in lab-on-a-chip, biomanufacturing, and chemical
engineering. In this study, a micromixer with a conductive barrier plate based on the induced …

Thermal gradient and elastic dependence of induced charge electro-osmosis in viscoelastic fluids

DL Chen, XP Luo, ZG Su, K Luo, HL Yi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Induced charge electro-osmosis has notable implementation possibilities in thermal
management and efficient electrokinetic micropumps. We present the coupled numerical …

Rapid mixing of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in a three-dimensional micro-mixer using non-uniform magnetic field

M Bayareh, A Usefian… - Journal of Heat and …, 2019 - jhmtr.semnan.ac.ir
The mixing of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in a magnetic micro-mixer was studied
numerically using ferrofluid. The mixing process was performed in a three-dimensional …

Optimum design of micromixer for a non-Newtonian fluid by topology optimization

X Dong, K Yaji, X Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving the mixing performance is a crucial and widely concerned topic in microfluidic
devices for low Reynolds numbers (Re). In this paper, the mixing unit as the design domain …

A comprehensive geometrical study on an induced-charge electrokinetic micromixer equipped with electrically conductive plates

M Nazari, PYA Chuang, JA Esfahani… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a numerical study is performed on an induced-charge electrokinetic
micromixer. The electrically conductive plates are installed inside the micromixer to induce …

Interplay of fluid rheology and flow actuation for modulation of mixing characteristics in T-shaped microchannels

A Roy, A Kumar, C Bakli, G Das, S Ray - Sādhanā, 2023 - Springer
Microfluidic applications demand mixing of fluids in a small span of length and time, which
remains a challenging task due to the low Reynolds number flows at these scales. The …

Influence of flow pulsations and yield stress on heat transfer from a sphere

G Mishra, RP Chhabra - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, the momentum and heat transfer characteristics of a time-dependent flow of
Bingham plastic fluid over a heated isothermal sphere have been investigated numerically …

Induced charge electroosmosis characteristics of viscoelastic fluid around a metal cylinder

Z Lv, L Zhang, H Wu, Y Wang, J Li - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
The mixing of chemical analysis reagents at the microscale is critical. Most of the biological
fluids and polymer solutions used in the field of biomedicine belong to the category of non …