Justification of Non-Dimensional Schemes and Identification of Parameters on Modelling Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena in Microchannels

The electrokinetic transport phenomena are to be numerically studied based on cross-linked microchannel networks, which have been commonly employed for on-chip capillary electrophoresis applications. Applied potential field, flow field and concentration field should be solved to predict the species transport process under electrokinetic flows. Together with the well-designed channel geometry, a detailed physical model was firstly formulated through a series of governing equations and corresponding boundary/initial conditions, which was briefly re-presented from our previous publications. The emphasis of current work was to justify the simplest non-dimensional scheme and identify the most beneficial parameters so that an effective and simplified non-dimensional model was developed for numerical studies.Copyright © 2010 by ASME