scholarly journals CO2-Driven diffusiophoresis and water cleaning: similarity solutions for predicting the exclusion zone in a channel flow

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suin Shim ◽  
Mrudhula Baskaran ◽  
Ethan H. Thai ◽  
Howard A. Stone

We study diffusiophoretic exclusion zone (EZ) formation in rectangular channel flow, driven by CO2 dissolution from one side wall. By using a similarity transform and considering the flow structure, we obtain the relation between EZ and the wall shear rate.

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Rao ◽  
Yan Feng ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Bernhard Weigand

An experimental and numerical study was conducted to investigate the effects of dimple shapes on the heat transfer and flow friction of a turbulent flow over dimpled surfaces with different dimple shapes: spherical, teardrop, elliptical, and inclined elliptical. These dimples all have the same depth. The heat transfer, friction factor, and flow structure characteristics in the cooling channels with dimples of different shapes have been obtained and compared with each other for a Reynolds number range of 8500–60,000. The study showed that the dimple shape can have distinctive effects on the heat transfer and flow structure in the dimpled channels. The teardrop dimples show the highest heat transfer, which is about 18% higher than the conventional spherical dimples; and the elliptical dimples have the lowest heat transfer, which is about 10% lower than the spherical dimples; and however the inclined elliptical dimples have comparable heat transfer and pressure loss performance with the spherical dimples. The experiments still showed the realistic heat transfer enhancement capabilities of the dimpled channels relative to a smooth rectangular channel flow under the same flow and thermal boundary conditions, even after considering the thermal entrance effects in the channel flow and the enlarged heat transfer (wetted) area due to the dimpled surface. The three-dimensional numerical computations showed different vortex flow structures and detailed heat transfer characteristics of the dimples with different shapes, which revealed the influential mechanisms of differently shaped dimples on the convective heat transfer enhancement.


1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 1267-1284
Author(s):  
Ondřej Wein

Response of an electrodiffusion friction sensor to a finite step of the wall shear rate is studied by numerically solving the relevant mass-transfer problem. The resulting numerical data on transient currents are treated further to provide reasonably accurate analytical representations. Existing approximations to the general response operator are checked by using the obtained exact solution.


2001 ◽  
Vol 194 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Einar E. Eriksson ◽  
Xun Xie ◽  
Joachim Werr ◽  
Peter Thoren ◽  
Lennart Lindbom

In the multistep process of leukocyte extravasation, the mechanisms by which leukocytes establish the initial contact with the endothelium are unclear. In parallel, there is a controversy regarding the role for L-selectin in leukocyte recruitment. Here, using intravital microscopy in the mouse, we investigated leukocyte capture from the free flow directly to the endothelium (primary capture), and capture mediated through interactions with rolling leukocytes (secondary capture) in venules, in cytokine-stimulated arterial vessels, and on atherosclerotic lesions in the aorta. Capture was more prominent in arterial vessels compared with venules. In venules, the incidence of capture increased with increasing vessel diameter and wall shear rate. Secondary capture required a minimum rolling leukocyte flux and contributed by ∼20–50% of total capture in all studied vessel types. In arteries, secondary capture induced formation of clusters and strings of rolling leukocytes. Function inhibition of L-selectin blocked secondary capture and thereby decreased the flux of rolling leukocytes in arterial vessels and in large (>45 μm in diameter), but not small (<45 μm), venules. These findings demonstrate the importance of leukocyte capture from the free flow in vivo. The different impact of blockage of secondary capture in venules of distinct diameter range, rolling flux, and wall shear rate provides explanations for the controversy regarding the role of L-selectin in various situations of leukocyte recruitment. What is more, secondary capture occurs on atherosclerotic lesions, a fact that provides the first evidence for roles of L-selectin in leukocyte accumulation in atherogenesis.


2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 847-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Tuka ◽  
Marcela Slavikova ◽  
Zdislava Kasalova ◽  
Jan Malik

1992 ◽  
Vol 263 (6) ◽  
pp. H1892-H1900 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Menger ◽  
D. Steiner ◽  
K. Messmer

“No reflow” has been implicated as prominent phenomenon in microvascular injury associated with ischemia-reperfusion (I/R). The objectives of this study were 1) to elucidate the significance of no reflow in microvascular I/R injury of striated muscle and 2) to determine whether reactive oxygen metabolites play a role in the development of postischemic no reflow. By use of the hamster dorsal skinfold preparation and intravital microscopy, microvascular perfusion of capillaries and postcapillary venules of striated muscle was quantitatively assessed before and 30 min, 2 h, and 24 h after 4 h of tourniquet-induced ischemia. I/R was characterized by a significant reduction (P < 0.01) in functional capillary density to 35% of baseline values during initial reperfusion, with incomplete recovery after 24 h (n = 9). In addition, capillary perfusion was found to be extremely heterogeneous, and wall shear rate in postcapillary venules was significantly decreased (P < 0.01). Treatment with either superoxide dismutase (SOD; n = 9) or allopurinol (n = 9) resulted in maintenance of capillary density of 60% of baseline (P < 0.05). Furthermore, I/R-induced capillary perfusion inhomogeneities and decrease of wall shear rate in venules were attenuated significantly (P < 0.01) by SOD and allopurinol. Thus part of capillary perfusion disturbances during I/R in striated muscle may be caused by increased postcapillary vascular resistance, probably mediated by reactive oxygen metabolites. However, the fact that in SOD- and allopurinol-treated animals 40% of the capillaries were still found to be nonperfused indicates that mechanisms other than oxygen radicals play an important role in the development of postischemic no reflow.


1976 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Pedley

The viscous boundary layer on a finite flat plate in a stream which reverses its direction once (at t = 0) is analysed using an improved version of the approximate method described earlier (Pedley 1975). Long before reversal (t < −t1), the flow at a point on the plate will be quasi-steady; long after reversal (t > t2), the flow will again be quasi-steady, but with the leading edge at the other end of the plate. In between (−t1 < t < t2) the flow is governed approximately by the diffusion equation, and we choose a simple solution of that equation which ensures that the displacement thickness of the boundary layer remains constant at t = −t1. The results of the theory, in the form of the wall shear rate at a point as a function of time, are given both for a uniformly decelerating stream, and for a sinusoidally oscillating stream which reverses its direction twice every cycle. The theory is further modified to cover streams which do not reverse, but for which the quasi-steady solution breaks down because the velocity becomes very small. The analysis is also applied to predict the wall shear rate at the entrance to a straight pipe when the core velocity varies with time as in a dog's aorta. The results show positive and negative peak values of shear very much larger than the mean. They suggest that, if wall shear is implicated in the generation of atherosclerosis because it alters the permeability of the wall to large molecules, then an appropriate index of wall shear at a point is more likely to be the r.m.s. value than the mean.


1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Brands ◽  
Arnold P.G. Hoeks ◽  
Leo Hofstra ◽  
Robert S. Reneman

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