Surface charge density and distribution dependence of a nanochannel electro-osmotic flow was examined using a molecular dynamics (MD) model. Systems consisting of Na and Cl− ions in water confined between crystalline walls with varying negative charge on inner surfaces in an external electric field were investigated. At low surface charge densities, water flows as expected by common interpretat...

Recently, there has been a growing interest in using induced electro-osmosis to pump fluids in microfluidic devices. We show that induced electroosmosis can also be used to promote stirring and chaotic advection. To this end, we study theoretically a stirrer in which the flow patterns are alternated in time. We first analyze an idealized embodiment of the stirrer that admits a simple analytical...

Electro-convective vortices in ion concentration polarization under shear flow have been of practical relevance for desalination processes using electrodialysis. The phenomenon has been scientifically disregarded for decades, but is recently embraced by a growing fluid dynamics community due its complex superposition of multi-scale gradients in electrochemical potential and space charge interac...

The classical theory of electrokinetic phenomena assumes a dilute solution of point-like ions in chemical equilibrium with a surface whose doublelayer voltage is of order the thermal voltage, kBT/e = 25 mV. In nonlinear ‘induced-charge’ electrokinetic phenomena, such as ac electro-osmosis, several volts ≈100kBT/e are applied to the double layer, and the theory breaks down and cannot explain man...