《Dispersion in oscillatory electro-osmotic flow through a parallel-plate channel with kinetic sorptive exchange at walls》.pdfVIP

363 2014,26(3):363-373 DOI: 10.1016/S1001-6058(14)60041-X Dispersion in oscillatory electro-osmotic flow through a parallel-plate channel * with kinetic sorptive exchange at walls SONG Jie School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore, E-mail: SONG0084@e.ntu.edu.sg NG Chiu-On (吴朝安) Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China LAW Wing-Keung Adrian School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore (Received September 3, 2013, Revised February 16, 2014) Abstract: Dispersion in time-oscillatory electro-osmotic flows in a slit micro-channel under the effect of kinetic sorptive exchange at walls is theoretically investigated using the homogenization method. The two walls of the channel are considered to be made up of different materials, and therefore have different zeta potentials and sorption coefficients. A general expression for the Taylor disper- sion coefficient under different zeta potentials as well as various sorption conditions at the walls is derived analytically. The disper- sion coefficient is found to be dependent on the oscillation frequency, the Debye parameter, the species partition coefficient, the rea- ction kinetics and the ratio of the wall potentials. The results demonstrate that the presence of wall sorption tends to enhance the dispersion when the oscillation frequency is low, but the effect is negligible in high-frequency oscillatory f