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The Preparation of Electrohydrodynamic Bridges from Polar Dielectric Liquids
Published on: September 30, 2014
Competition between the bulk and the dissociation layer in electrohydrodynamic flow of dielectric liquid around
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong-A University, 840 Hadan-dong, Saha-gu, Busan 604-714, Korea.
Abstract:
An experimental and numerical study has been conducted on the electrohydrodynamic flow around coplanar electrodes with a dielectric liquid: dodecane mixed with the surfactant Span 80. It is shown that the flow is asymmetric, although the electrode is symmetrically arranged, and numerically, we have shown that a difference in the ionic size can reproduce such asymmetric patterns. It is also found that the dissociation layer effect becomes more important in determining the flow pattern than is predicted from the conventional theory where the Langevin formula is used for the recombination constant. In numerical simulations, reducing the recombination constant to 0.035-0.055 times the Langevin value turned out to produce good comparisons between the experimental and the numerical results for the electrode pairs with 1 and 0.2 mm gaps.
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