Author(s)

Dongsheng Li, Kun Li^*

College of Science, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, China.

Using the method of Laplace transform, analytical expressions are derived for the time periodic pulse electroosmotic flow (EOF) velocity of the triangle and sawtooth of Maxwell fluid in circular microchannel. The solution involves analytically solving the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann (P-B) equation, together with the Cauchy momentum equation and the general Maxwell constitutive equation. By numerical computations of inverse Laplace transform, the effects of electrokinetic width K, relaxation time  and pulse width a on the above several pulse EOF velocities are investigated. In addition, we focused on the comparison and analysis of the formulas and graphs between the triangle and sawtooth pulse EOF with the rectangle pulse EOF. The study found that there are obvious differences in formulas and graphs between triangle and sawtooth pulse EOF with rectangle pulse EOF, and the difference mainly depends on the different definitions of the three kinds of time periodic pulse waves. Finally, we also studied the stability of the above three kinds of pulse EOF and the influence of relaxation time on pulse EOF velocity under different pulse widths is discussed. We find that the rectangle pulse EOF is more stable than the triangle and sawtooth pulse EOF. For any pulse, as the pulse width a increases, the influence of the relaxation time on the pulse EOF velocity will be weakened.

Pulse Electroosmotic Flow, Maxwell Fluid, Circular Microchannel, Relaxation Time, Pulse Width

Li, D. and Li, K. (2021) Talk about Several Time Periodic Pulse Electroosmotic Flow of Maxwell Fluid in a Circular Microchannel. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 9, 617-634. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2021.94045.