Combined Magnetohydrodynamic/Pressure Driven Flow of Multi-Layer Pseudoplastic Fluids Through a Parallel Flat Plates Microchannel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan R. Gómez ◽  
Juan P. Escandón
Keyword(s):  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Immiscible Fluids ◽  
Liquid Interfaces ◽  
Flat Plates ◽  
Power Requirement ◽  
Electrically Conducting ◽  
Pseudoplastic Fluids ◽  
Solid Liquid ◽  
Pressure Driven Flow ◽  
Pressure Driven

With the advance of microfluidic platforms and due to the need to solve different implications that still exist on the transport of electrically conducting fluids, the analysis on strategies in micropumps that involve a simplicity in its structure, absence of mechanical moving parts, flow reversibility and low power requirement is current. Therefore, the present investigation contributes with the analysis of the combined magnetohydrodynamic/pressure driven flow of multilayer immiscible fluids in a microchannel formed by two parallel flat plates. The mathematical model is based in a steady fully developed flow and the pumped fluids follow the power law model to describe the pseudoplastic fluids rheology, while magnetic effects on the flow are given from the Lorentz forces. The velocity profiles and flow rate are obtained in the limit of small Hartmann numbers by solving analytically a closed system of ordinary differential equations, together to the corresponding boundary conditions at the solid-liquid interfaces in the channel walls and at the liquid-liquid interfaces between the fluid layers. The results show that the flow field is controlled by the dimensionless parameters that arise from the mathematical modeling being a parameter that indicates the competition between pressure to the magnetic forces, magnetic parameters related to Hartmann numbers, viscosities ratios between the fluids, flow behavior indexes and the dimensionless position of the liquid-liquid interfaces.

Interface Analysis of a Combined Electroosmotic/Pressure Driven Flow of Three Viscoelastic Immiscible Fluids in a Microchannel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan P. Escandón ◽  
Juan R. Gómez ◽  
Clara G. Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Surface Charge ◽  
Slip Surface ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Immiscible Fluids ◽  
Charge Densities ◽  
Poisson Boltzmann Equation ◽  
Pressure Driven Flow ◽  
Viscous Stresses ◽  
Pressure Driven

This paper presents the analytical solution of a combined electroosmotic/pressure driven flow of three viscoelastic immiscible fluids in a parallel flat plate microchannel. The mathematical model is based in the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and Cauchy momentum conservation equation. In the steady state analysis, we consider that the three fluids are electric conductors and obey to the simplified Phan-Thien-Tanner rheological model; therefore, different conditions at the interface between the fluids as electric slip, surface charge density and electro-viscous stresses balance are discussed in detail. Results show the transport phenomena coupled in the description of the velocity profiles, by the analyzing of the dimensionless parameters obtained, such as: the electric slips, the electric permittivities ratios, the surface charge densities, the zeta potentials at the walls, the interfaces positions, the viscosity ratios, the viscoelastic and electrokinetic parameters, and the term involving the external pressure gradient. Here, the presence of a net electric charges balance at the interface, breaks the continuity of shear viscous stresses, modifying the flow field; hence, for the established electric conditions at the interface through the values of the electric slips and the surface charge densities, play a role like a switch on the flow behavior. This investigation extends the knowledge about the techniques on the control of immiscible non-Newtonian fluids in microescale.

Analysis of Combined Electroosmotic and Pressure Driven Flow of Multilayer Immiscible Fluids in a Narrow Capillary

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan P. Escandón ◽  
David A. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Surface Charge ◽  
Stokes Equations ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Immiscible Fluids ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Charge Densities ◽  
Narrow Capillary ◽  
Viscous Shear ◽  
Pressure Driven Flow ◽  
Pressure Driven

Abstract This paper presents the analytical solution of a combined electroosmotic and pressure driven flow of multilayer immiscible fluids in a narrow capillary. The mathematical model is based in the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the modified Navier-Stokes equations. In the steady-state analysis, we consider different conditions at the interfaces between the fluids as potential differences, surface charge densities and electro-viscous stresses balances, which are discussed in detail. Results show the transport phenomena coupled in the description of velocity distribution, by the analyzing of the dimensionless parameters obtained, such as: potential differences, surface charge densities, electrokinetic parameters, term involving the external pressure gradient, ratios of viscosity and of dielectric permittivity. Here, the presence of a net electric charges balance at the interfaces breaks the continuity of the electric potential distributions and viscous shear stresses, modifying the flow field; thus, the electrical conditions established at the interfaces play an important role on the flow behavior. The present work, in which the velocity field is described, aims to be an important contribution in the development of theoretical models that provide a better understanding about labs-on-a-chip design.

scholarly journals Analytical Solution of Mixed Electroosmotic/Pressure Driven Flow of Viscoelastic Fluids between a Parallel Flat Plates Micro-Channel: The Maxwell Model Using the Oldroyd and Jaumann Time Derivatives

Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 986
Author(s):  
Laura Casas ◽  
José A. Ortega ◽  
Aldo Gómez ◽  
Juan Escandón ◽  
René O. Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Viscoelastic Fluids ◽  
Volumetric Flow Rate ◽  
Maxwell Model ◽  
Parallel Plates ◽  
Flat Plates ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Low Viscosity ◽  
Pressure Driven Flow ◽  
Pressure Driven

In the present work, an analytical approximate solution of mixed electroosmotic/pressure driven flow of viscoelastic fluids between a parallel plates microchannel is reported. Inserting the Oldroyd, Jaumann, or both time derivatives into the Maxwell model, important differences in the velocity profiles were found. The presence of the shear and normal stresses is only close to the wall. This model can be used as a tool to understand the flow behavior of low viscosity fluids, as most of them experiment on translation, deformation and rotation of the flow. For practical applications, the volumetric flow rate can be controlled with two parameters, namely the gradient pressure and the electrokinetic parameter, once the fluid has been rheologically characterized.

scholarly journals Viscous micropump of immiscible fluids using magnetohydrodynamic effects and a power-law conducting fluid

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (6 Nov-Dec) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Rolando Gómez López ◽  
Clara Guadalupe Hernández Roblero ◽  
Juan Pablo Escandón Colin ◽  
René Osvaldo Vargas Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Newtonian Fluid ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Fluid Transport ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Immiscible Fluids ◽  
Conducting Fluid ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Flat Plates ◽  
Flow Behavior Index ◽  
Interface Position

Small-scale fluid transport methods have grown significantly in recent years, mainly in applications in microfluidic systems. Therefore, the present study analyzes the movement of two-layers of immiscible fluids within a parallel flat plates microchannel. The fluid layers are composed of a Newtonian fluid and a power-law fluid. The pumping is produced by magnetohydrodynamics effects that act on the non-Newtonian conducting fluid dragging the non-conducting Newtonian fluid by viscous forces. Under the consideration of a laminar, incompressible, and unidirectional flow, the dimensionless mathematical model is established by the momentum equations for each fluid, together with the corresponding boundary conditions at solid-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces. The problem formulation is semi-analytically solved using the Newton-Raphson method. The results are presented as a function of the velocity profiles and flow rate, showing interesting behaviors that depend on the physical and electrical properties of each fluid and flow conditions via the dimensionless parameters such as the flow behavior index, a magnetic parameter related to Lorenz forces, the fluids viscosity ratios and the dimensionless liquid-liquid interface position. This work contributes to the understanding of the various immiscible non-conducting fluids pumping techniques that can be used in microdevices.

scholarly journals Rheological Characterization of a Concentrated Phosphate Slurry

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Souhail Maazioui ◽  
Abderrahim Maazouz ◽  
Fayssal Benkhaldoun ◽  
Driss Ouazar ◽  
Khalid Lamnawar
Keyword(s):  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Continuous Phase ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Rheological Characterization ◽  
Phosphate Ore ◽  
Insoluble Particles ◽  
Experimental Protocols ◽  
Solid Liquid

Phosphate ore slurry is a suspension of insoluble particles of phosphate rock, the primary raw material for fertilizer and phosphoric acid, in a continuous phase of water. This suspension has a non-Newtonian flow behavior and exhibits yield stress as the shear rate tends toward zero. The suspended particles in the present study were assumed to be noncolloidal. Various grades and phosphate ore concentrations were chosen for this rheological investigation. We created some experimental protocols to determine the main characteristics of these complex fluids and established relevant rheological models with a view to simulate the numerical flow in a cylindrical pipeline. Rheograms of these slurries were obtained using a rotational rheometer and were accurately modeled with commonly used yield-pseudoplastic models. The results show that the concentration of solids in a solid–liquid mixture could be increased while maintaining a desired apparent viscosity. Finally, the design equations for the laminar pipe flow of yield pseudoplastics were investigated to highlight the role of rheological studies in this context.

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