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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Electroosmotic Flows in a Square Microchannel

Lin, Hung-chun 14 July 2005 (has links)
Experiments were performed using a microparticle image velocimetry (MPIV) for full field velocity distributions of electroosmotically driven flows in a 40 mm long microchannel with a square cross section of 200 µm ¡Ñ 200 µm. Electroosmotic flow bulk fluid velocity measurements were made in a range of streamwise electric field strengths from 5 to 25 kV/m. A series of seed particle calibration tests can be made in a 200 µm x 200 µm x 24000 µm untreated PDMS channel incorporating MPIV to determine the electrophoretic mobilities in aqueous buffer solutions of 1 TAE, 1 TBE, 10 mM NaCl, and 10 mM borate, respectively. A linear/nonlinear (due to Joule heating) flow rate increase with applied field was obtained and compared with those of previous studies. A parametric study, with extensive measurements was performed with different electric field strength and buffer solution concentration under a constant zeta potential at wall for each buffer. The characteristics of electroosmotic flow in square microchannels were thus investigated. Finally, a composite correlation of the relevant parameters was developed within accuracy for 99% of the experimental data.

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