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The Preparation of Electrohydrodynamic Bridges from Polar Dielectric Liquids
Published on: September 30, 2014
Pulsating electric field modulated contact line dynamics of immiscible binary systems in narrow confinements under an
Pranab Kumar Mondal1, Uddipta Ghosh, Aditya Bandopadhyay
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India.
Abstract:
We investigate the interfacial electro-chemical-hydrodynamics of an incompressible immiscible binary fluid system that moves in a narrow fluidic channel under time-periodic electroosmotic effects. We apply an alternating electrical voltage that sets the binary fluids in motion along the channel, whereas the channel walls are lined with chemical patch to alter the wetting characteristics of the surface. We demonstrate that the pulsating nature of the externally applied electric field in conjunction with the wetting characteristics of the surface may lead to some fascinating behavior of the contact line motion; which, in turn, may affect the capillary filling dynamics in an intriguing manner. Our results also unveil the profound influence of two important governing factors actuating the flow, namely, the frequency and amplitude of the time periodic electric field, on the tunability of the capillary filling rate and power requirement for filling the fluids into the channel.
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