Steric-effect induced alterations in streaming potential and energy transfer efficiency of non-newtonian fluids in narrow confinements

Bandopadhyay, Aditya ; Chakraborty, Suman (2011) Steric-effect induced alterations in streaming potential and energy transfer efficiency of non-newtonian fluids in narrow confinements Langmuir, 27 (19). pp. 12243-12252. ISSN 0743-7463

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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la202273e

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la202273e

Abstract

In this work, we explore the possibilities of utilizing the combined consequences of interfacial electrokinetics and rheology toward augmenting the energy transfer efficiencies in narrow fluidic confinements. In particular, we consider the exploitation of steric effects (i.e., effect of finite size of the ionic species) in non-Newtonian fluids over small scales, to report dramatic augmentations in the streaming potential, for shear-thickening fluids. We first derive an expression for the streaming potential considering strong electrical double layer interactions in the confined flow passage and the consequences of the finite conductance of the Stern layer, going beyond the Debye–Hückel limit. With a detailed accounting for the excluded volume effects of the ionic species and their interaction with pertinent interfacial phenomena of special type of rheological fluids such as the power law fluids in the above-mentioned formalism, we demonstrate that a confluence of the steric interactions with the non-Newtonian transport characteristics may result in giant augmentations in the energy transfer efficiency for shear-thickening fluids under appropriate conditions.

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