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Electroosmosis modulated peristaltic biorheological flow through an asymmetric microchannel: mathematical model

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dc.contributor.author Tripathi, Dharmendra
dc.contributor.author Jhorar, Ravindra
dc.contributor.author Be ́g, Anwar
dc.contributor.author Shaw, Sachin
dc.date.accessioned 2022-02-16T09:30:59Z
dc.date.available 2022-02-16T09:30:59Z
dc.date.issued 2017-11-20
dc.identifier.citation Tripathi, D. et.al.(2017) Electroosmosis modulated peristaltic biorheological flow through an asymmetric microchannel: mathematical model. Meccanica, 53, 2079–2090 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-017-0795-x en_US
dc.identifier.issn 15729648
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.biust.ac.bw/handle/123456789/407
dc.description.abstract A theoretical study is presented of peristaltic hydrodynamics of an aqueous electrolytic non-Newtonian Jeffrey bio-rheological fluid through an asymmetric microchannel under an applied axial electric field. An analytical approach is adopted to obtain the closed form solution for velocity, volumetric flow, pressure difference and stream function. The analysis is also restricted under the low Reynolds number assumption (Stokes flow) and lubrication theory approximations (large wavelength). Small ionic Peclét number and Debye–Hückel linearization (i.e. wall zeta potential ≤ 25 mV) are also considered to simplify the Nernst–Planck and Poisson–Boltzmann equations. Streamline plots are also presented for the different electro-osmotic parameter, varying magnitudes of the electric field (both aiding and opposing cases) and for different values of the ratio of relaxation to retardation time parameter. Comparisons are also included between the Newtonian and general non-Newtonian Jeffrey fluid cases. The results presented here may be of fundamental interest towards designing lab-on-a-chip devices for flow mixing, cell manipulation, micro-scale pumps etc. Trapping is shown to be more sensitive to an electric field (aiding, opposing and neutral) rather than the electro-osmotic parameter and viscoelastic relaxation to retardation ratio parameter. The results may also help towards the design of organ-on-a-chip like devices for better drug design. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer en_US
dc.subject Peristalsis en_US
dc.subject Electrokinetic transport en_US
dc.subject Analytical approach en_US
dc.subject Trapping en_US
dc.subject Viscoelastic fluids en_US
dc.title Electroosmosis modulated peristaltic biorheological flow through an asymmetric microchannel: mathematical model en_US
dc.description.level phd en_US
dc.description.accessibility unrestricted en_US
dc.description.department mss en_US


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