DOI

So far, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pumps based on the injection or the field-enhanced dissociation (the Wien effect) at the surface of metal electrodes have been studied. This paper proposes and studies both numerically and experimentally a fundamentally new pump scheme, namely, the EHD pump operating due to the Wien effect in a conical hole located in the solid insulation barrier. An experimental setup of the pump has been created, and performance (pressure vs flow rate) characteristics have been measured that satisfactorily agree with the results of computer simulation. With the size of the hole being a fraction of a millimeter, the proposed system performance is comparable to that of the previously studied EHD pumps.

Original languageEnglish
Article number107102
Number of pages9
JournalPhysics of Fluids
Volume32
Issue number10
Early online date1 Oct 2020
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2020

    Research areas

  • CONDUCTION, LIQUID, FLOW, ELECTRODE, MOTION

    Scopus subject areas

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Computational Mechanics

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