Bipolar Structures Induced by an Electric Field in Microchannel Flow of a Weakly Conducting Liquid

Resumo

The induction of uncompensated volume charge in a weakly conducting liquid flowing in a flat microchannel by a highly nonuniform electric field is modeled and investigated; the flow regime is limited to moderate Debye numbers. The effects associated with the immediate impact of the electric field on the bulk dissociation kinetics are analyzed.