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Polyelectrolyte hydrogels are ionic gels with viscoelastic properties. They are able to reversibly swell and deswell in response to different external stimuli. In the present work stacked layers of hydrogels - also referred to as hydrogel layers - under chemical stimulation are numerically investigated. For this, a set of coupled partial differential equations describing the chemical, the electrical and the mechanical field is solved by using the finite element method. The swelling behavior of the hydrogel layers - obtained by a novel approach for the osmotic pressure - is in excellent agreement with other investigations available in the literature.
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Martin Sobczyk, Thomas Wallmersperger, "Modeling and simulation of chemically stimulated hydrogel layers using the multifield theory," Proc. SPIE 9798, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2016, 979810 (15 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217890