Instabilities in electrochemical systems with a rotating disc electrode



Título del documento: Instabilities in electrochemical systems with a rotating disc electrode
Revista: Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000312145
ISSN: 0100-7386
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Engenharia Metalurgica e de Materiais, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Ciencia da Computacao, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo. Brasil
3Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Engenharia Metalurgica e de Materiais, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
4Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Quimica, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
5Centre National de Recherches Scientifique, París. Francia
Año:
Periodo: Jul
Volumen: 24
Número: 3
Paginación: 139-148
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés Polarization curves experimentally obtained in the electro-dissolution of iron in a 1 M H2SO4 solution using a rotating disc as the working electrode present a current instability region within the range of applied voltage in which the current is controlled by mass transport in the electrolyte. According to the literature (Barcia et. al., 1992) the electro-dissolution process leads to the existence of a viscosity gradient in the interface metal-solution, which leads to a velocity field quantitatively different form the one developed in uniform viscosity conditions and may affect the stability of the hydrodynamic field. The purpose of this work is to investigate whether a steady viscosity profile, depending on the distance to the electrode surface, affects the stability properties of the classic velocity field near a rotating disc. Two classes of perturbations are considered: perturbations monotonically varying along the radial direction, and perturbations periodically modulated along the radial direction. The results show that the hydrodynamic field is always stable with respect to the first class of perturbations and that the neutral stability curves are modified by the presence of a viscosity gradient in the second case, in the sense of reducing the critical Reynolds number beyond which perturbations are amplified. This result supports the hypothesis that the current oscillations observed in the polarization curve may originate from a hydrodynamic instability
Disciplinas: Química,
Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Química analítica,
Dinámica de fluidos,
Electroquímica,
Inestabilidad,
Hidrodinámica,
Estabilidad,
Turbulencias,
Discos,
Flujo
Keyword: Chemistry,
Physics and astronomy,
Analytical chemistry,
Fluid dynamics,
Electrochemistry,
Instability,
Hydrodynamics,
Stability,
Turbulences,
Discs,
Flow
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