The presented article addresses the electro-osmotic peristaltic flow of a couple stress fluid bounded in an inclined asymmetric micro-channel. viscous dissipation, Joule heating and chemical reaction effects are employed simultaneously analysis. Heat mass transfer have been studied under large wavelength small Reynolds number. resulting nonlinear systems solved numerically. influence various do...

Electric fields are commonly used for manipulating particles and liquids in microfluidic systems. In this work, we report stationary electro-osmotic flow vortices around dielectric micropillars induced by ac electric electrolytes. The characteristics theoretically predicted based on the well-known phenomena of surface conductance concentration polarization a charged object. flows arise from two...

Lab-on-a-chip devices require integrated pumping and fluid control in microchannels. A recently developed mechanism that can produce fluid flow is an integrated ac-electro-osmosis micropump. However, like most electrokinetic pumps, ac-electro-osmotic pumps are incapable of handling backpressure as the pumping force mechanism acts on the surface of the fluid rather than the bulk. This paper pres...

I eliminate hundred years old notion of ‘plug-flow’ in electro-osmosis, which was predicted by incomplete ‘electric double layer’ (EDL) theory. A recently developed ‘electric triple layer’ (ETL) theory removes some serious shortcomings of EDL theory regarding conservation of electric charge, and when applied to electro-osmosis, shows that the velocity profile is not ‘plug-like’ at all, but more...

This paper presents global and point-wise comparisons of experimental measurements and numerical simulation results of electro-osmotically driven flows in two elementary micro-channel configurations, a straight channel with a groove and a T-junction channel. The microchannels are made by photolithography using poly-dimethylsiloxane (PDMS), a type of silicon product, which is transparent, and el...