Study of Slip Effect on Electro-osmotic Micromixer Performance Based on Entropy Index

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1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

In this article electrokinetic mixing through heterogeneous microchannels has been studied and
the effects of slip coefficient, zeta-potential, Debye-Huckel parameter and Reynolds number on mixing efficiency
have been investigated. The microchannels have homogenous surface properties except for zeta-potential. In order to
study the electro-osmotic mixing, the Navier-Stokes, Nernst–Planck, electric potential and concentration equations
have been solved numerically. In order to evaluate the mixing efficiency, entropy of concentration has been used as a
quantitative index. The results show that the behavior of electro-osmotic micromixers is highly depended to amount
and distribution of wall zeta-potential. Furthermore, mixing efficiency increases with reduction of slip coefficient and
Debye-Huckel and Reynolds number parameters in most cases. It is seen that slip coefficient can decrease or increase
mixing efficiency dependent on the Reynolds number. Furthermore the accuracy of Helmholtz-Smoluchowski
approximate model is also investigated and it is found that in high wall zeta-potential cases or low values of Debye-
Huckel parameter, results of this model have significant error compared to Nernst-Planck model. It is also found that
the mixing performance increases when as the charge pattern of micromixer is more asymmetric so that the certain
mixing value can be obtained in shorter length which is importance in micromixers design.

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Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume 49, Issue 3
November 2017
Pages 535-548

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