Retracted: “Electro-Osmotic Propulsion of Jeffrey Fluid in a Ciliated Channel Under the Effect of Nonlinear Radiation and Heat Source/Sink,” [ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2021, 143(5), p. 051008; DOI: 10.1115/1.4049810]

Abstract

Mathematical modelling of mechanical system in microfluidics is an emerging area of interest in micro scale engineering. Since microfluidic devices use the hair like structure of artificial cilia for pumping, mixing and sensing in different fields, therefore; electro osmotic cilia driven flow help to generate the fluid velocity for the Newtonian and viscoelastic fluid. Due to the deployment of artificial ciliated walls, the present research reports the combined effect of an electro osmotic flow and convective heat transfer on Jeffrey viscoelastic electrolytic fluid flow in a two-dimensional ciliated vertical channel. Heat generation/absorption and nonlinear radiation effects are included in the present mathematical model. After applying Debye-Huckel approximation and small Reynolds number approximation to momentum and energy equation, the system of nonlinear partial differential equation is reduced into non-homogenous boundary value problem. The problem determines the velocity, pressure and temperature profiles by the application of semi-analytical technique known as Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) with the help of software Mathematica. The graphical results of the study suggest that HPM is a reliable methodology for thermo physical electro-osmotic rheological transport in micro channels.

Numerical exploration of electroosmotically regulated squeezing rotating flow of TiO2/water nanofluid in a parallel plate channel under triple diffusion convection

“…Similarly, Akram et al [15] explored the effects of Joule heating on the electro-osmotic peristaltic flow of TiO 2 /10W40 nanofluid in a curved microchannel. Some similar studies can be found in [16][17][18][19][20].…”

Microfluidic Applications of Artificial Cilia: Recent Progress, Demonstration, and Future Perspectives

“…Recently, Saleem et al [ 128 ] numerically analyzed the transportation of thermally radiated nanofluid in the microchannel in which the inside layer was settled with artificial cilia. In similar physical conditions, parameters such as electric potential, directional flow, velocity, pressure, temperature, and entropy generation were numerically analyzed by the same group [ 129 , 130 , 131 ]. Outside osmotic pumps, a numerical study [ 132 ] was reported to examine the heat transfer in the rectangular channel under the influence of the mechanical stirrer or artificial cilia.…”

Analysis of radiative heat transfer on electro‐osmotic magneto nanofluid flow through ciliary propulsion

“…A numerical model has been proposed for the time-subordinate ciliary propulsion of a limited micro-organism by Rao [5]. It can been concluded in the light of observations of various experiments that biological fluids possesses non-Newtonian nature [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], and [14]. A simple Newtonian fluid does not represent true picture of physiological fluids.…”