Conditions for similarity between fluid velocity and electric field in electro osmotic

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• Flow acts on the net charge of fluids. It is produced by the separation of a charge at a fluid-
solid interface.
• The forces acting on some fluid appear near the fluid-solid boundary in only one case,
which is when the Debye layer is thin, which causes an electric or applied field to generate
a fluid transient as the neutral fluid accelerates. This transient fluid cannot be equal to the
stationary electric field which gives us to know that the velocity and electric fields must be
constant.
• The Debye length depends on the molar concentration of the ionized fluid, and its thickness
λD can be estimated using the Debye Huckel parameter:

Where z is the ionic valence, e is the magnitude of the elemental charge, n∞ is the
electrolyte concentration (m-3 ) and 𝜖 is the dielectric permittivity of the electrolyte
solution C2/Nm2 . kB is the Boltzmann constant, ((J K −1 |) and T the absolute
temperature (K).
• When the thickness of a channel is less than the Debye length, a net charge is present
within the fluid. Thus a uniform electric field generates a uniform body force resulting in
a parabolic velocity like that of pressure or gravity driven flows.
• When the tube walls are charged with negative charges, the electric field exerts a force in
the cathode direction on the excess positively charged ions near the surface. The
positively charged ions drag the electrolyte solution along with them and cause the fluid
to flow toward the cathode.

• The flow velocity at all inlet and outlet boundaries must be proportional to the electric
field.
• We consider two types of surfaces: S1 describes the surface between a fluid and an
impermeable solid while S2 describes the inlet or outlet boundaries.
• The flow velocity in electromagnetism is a vector field used to mathematically describe
the motion of a continuous medium, the length of the flow velocity vector is the flow
velocity and is a scalar, on the other hand, the flow velocity of a fluid is a vector field
which gives the velocity of a fluid parcel at a position x and time t.
• Electro osmosis is the movement of an ionized fluid under the effect of an electric field.
• The flow is irrotational everywhere outside the Debye layer. regardless of geometry all
fluid motion is simply potential flow, and the defined vorticity is exactly zero. These
flows cannot manifest closed fluid recirculation cells.
• Electro osmotic flows satisfying similarity conditions cannot contain any vortices,
regardless of geometry, the velocity field under similarity conditions does not depend on
the Reynolds number. This is because any powerful flow satisfies the Navier-Stokes
equations for all Reynolds numbers. under the similarity conditions, the velocity field in
any two-dimensional channel is independent of the channel depth, provided that the depth
is uniform and the electric field is vertically uniform at all inlet and outlet boundaries. So
that in this way, the upper and lower boundaries are maintained.