Nonlinear electrophoretic velocity of a spherical colloidal particle
Nonlinear electrophoretic velocity of a spherical colloidal particle
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DOI:
10.1017/jfm.2023.537
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发表时间:
2023-07-31
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Khair, Aditya S.
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作者:
Cobos, Richard;Khair, Aditya S.
Electrophoresis is the motion of a charged colloidal particle in an electrolyte under an applied electric field. The electrophoretic velocity of a spherical particle depends on the dimensionless electric field strength beta = a* e*E *(infinity) /k * (B) T *, defined as the ratio of the product of the applied electric field magnitude E *(infinity) and particle radius a*, to the thermal voltage k * (B) T * /e*, where k * B is Boltzmann's constant, T * is the absolute temperature, and e* is the charge on a proton. In this paper, we develop a spectral element algorithm to compute the electrophoretic velocity of a spherical, rigid, dielectric particle, of fixed dimensionless surface charge density sigma over a wide range of beta. Here, sigma = (e* a* /is an element of * k * (B) T *)sigma *, where sigma * is the dimensional surface charge density, and is an element of * is the permittivity of the electrolyte. For moderately charged particles ( sigma = O(1)), the electrophoretic velocity is linear in beta when beta