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We calculate the first passage time distribution for diffusion through a cylindrical pore with sticky walls. A particle diffusively explores the interior of the pore through a series of binding and unbinding events with the cylinder wall.…
Discrete element method simulations of confined bidisperse granular shear flows elucidate the balance between diffusion and segregation that can lead to either mixed or segregated states, depending on confining pressure. Results indicate…
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We consider a class of bulk-surface reaction-adsorption-diffusion systems, i.e. a coupled systems of reaction-diffusion systems on a bounded domain $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ (bulk phase) and its boundary $\Sigma = \partial \Omega$…