“…Generally, the electric field and the flow velocity vary at different locations between the electrodes. To assess the overall effect, we choose the equivalent mean electric
and centreline mean velocity
(not plotted in this paper) to calculate the mean drift velocity
=
and the mean convective velocity
=
, where
= 1 × 10 −8 m 2 /(V s) is the ion mobility [
1, 16]. The plot of
as a function of
is shown in Figure 6.…”