How stickiness can speed up diffusion in confined systems

A Alexandre, M Mangeat, T Guérin, DS Dean - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The paradigmatic model for heterogeneous media used in diffusion studies is built from
reflecting obstacles and surfaces. It is well known that the crowding effect produced by these …

How boundaries shape chemical delivery in microfluidics

M Aminian, F Bernardi, R Camassa, DM Harris… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Many microfluidic systems—including chemical reaction, sample analysis, separation,
chemotaxis, and drug development and injection—require control and precision of solute …

Shear dispersion of multispecies electrolyte solutions in the channel domain

L Ding - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
In multispecies electrolyte solutions, even in the absence of an external electric field,
differences in ion diffusivities induce an electric potential and generate additional fluxes for …

Determinism and invariant measures for diffusing passive scalars advected by unsteady random shear flows

L Ding, RM McLaughlin - Physical review fluids, 2022 - APS
We study the long-time behavior of an advection-diffusion equation with a general time-
varying (including random) shear flow imposing no-flux boundary conditions on channel …

Enhanced diffusivity and skewness of a diffusing tracer in the presence of an oscillating wall

L Ding, R Hunt, RM McLaughlin, H Woodie - Research in the …, 2021 - Springer
We develop a theory of enhanced diffusivity and skewness of the longitudinal distribution of
a diffusing tracer advected by a periodic time-varying shear flow in a straight channel …

Environmental transport in wetland channel with rectangular cross-section: Analytical solution by Chatwin's asymptotic expansion

JL Guo, WQ Jiang, L Zeng, GQ Chen - Journal of hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Predicting the evolution of concentration distribution of environmental transport in wetland
flows has a broad range of applications in ecological engineering practice. By extending a …

Automated flow control of a multi-lane swimming chamber for small fishes indicates species-specific sensitivity to experimental protocols

B Illing, A Severati, J Hochen, P Boyd… - Conservation …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In fishes, swimming performance is considered an important metric to measure fitness,
dispersal and migratory abilities. The swimming performance of individual larval fishes is …

A universal, rapid and accurate measurement for bend tubes based on multi-view vision

S Liu, T Wu, J Liu, X Wang, P Jin, H Huang… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-circular-cross-section tubes are widely used as heat exchange components throughout
the industry, including in fields such as aerospace, automobiles, and vessels. Tube …

A complex three-dimensional microfluidic model that mimics the early stage events in the human atherosclerotic artery

R Maringanti, CGM van Dijk, EM Meijer, MM Brandt… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Background Atherosclerosis is a complex inflammatory vascular disease characterized by
lipid and immune cells accumulation in the vessel wall, leading to lumen narrowing …

On the symmetry properties of a random passive scalar with and without boundaries, and their connection between hot and cold states

R Camassa, Z Kilic, RM McLaughlin - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2019 - Elsevier
We consider the evolution of a decaying passive scalar in the presence of a Gaussian white
noise fluctuating linear shear flow known as the Majda Model. We focus on deterministic …