Electro-osmotic flow of viscoelastic fluids in microchannels under asymmetric zeta potentials
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The flow of viscoelastic fluids between parallel plates under the combined influence of electro-osmotic and pressure gradient forcings with asymmetric boundary conditions, by considering different zeta potentials at the walls, is investigated. The fluids are z–z symmetric electrolytes. The analytic solutions of the electrical potential, velocity distributions and streaming potential are based on the Debye–Hückel approximation for weak potential. The viscoelastic fluids used are modelled by the simplified Phan-Thien–Tanner constitutive equation, with linear kernel for the stress coefficient function, and the Finitely Extensible Nonlinear Elastic dumbbells model with a Peterlin approximation for the average spring force. The combined effects of fluid rheology, electrical doublelayer thickness, ratio of the wall zeta potentials and ratio between the applied streamwise gradients of electrostatic potential and pressure on the fluid velocity and stress distributions are discussed.
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