Incorporating Electrokinetic Phenomena into EBNavierStokes

Chu, K ; Trebotich, D

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Pumping;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Fluid Flow;    59 Basic Biological Sciences;    Slip Velocity;   

DOI  :  10.2172/895090
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-218083
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  895090

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Motivated by the recent interest in using electrokinetic effects within microfluidic devices, they have extended the EBNavierStokes code to be able to handle electrokinetic effects. With this added functionality, the code becomes more useful for understanding and designing microfluidic devices that take advantage of electrokinetic effects (e.g. pumping and mixing). Supporting the simulation of electrokinetic effects required three main extensions to the existing code: (1) addition of an electric field solver, (2) development of a module for accurately computing the Smulochowski slip-velocity at fluid-solid boundaries, and (3) extension of the fluid solver to handle nonuniform inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The first and second extensions were needed to compute the electrokinetically generated slip-velocity at fluid-solid boundaries. The third extension made it possible for the fluid flow to be driven by a slip-velocity boundary condition (rather than by a pressure difference between inflow and outflow). In addition, several small changes were made throughout the code to make it compatible with these extensions. This report documents the changes to the EBNavierStokes code required to support the simulation of electrokinetic effects. They begin with a brief overview of the problem of electrokinetically driven flow. Next, they present a detailed description of the changes to the EBNavierStokes code. Finally, they present some preliminary results and discuss future directions and improvements to the code.