The Influence of Electrodes Position to Alternating Current Annular Micromixer

Abstract:

In this paper, we focused the mixed results of the micromixer with the same quantity of electrodes but different placement. We imposed time dependent electric potential on different electrodes under the low Reynolds number condition, and then evaluated the impact of electrode position to the mixed results and summarized some rules which were conducive to achieving mixed. According to the simulation results and combined with the assembly process, we obtained the optimal number and placement of microelectrodes.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 609-610)
• Pages: 1343-1348
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.609-610.1343
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: He Zhang*, Xiao Wei Liu, Li Tian, Xiao Wei Han
• Keywords: Alternating Current Micromixer, Electrodes Position, Mixing Efficiency

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