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We consider Brownian particles immersed in the fluid which flow is turbulent. We study the limit where the particles' inertia is weak and their velocity relaxes fast to the velocity of the flow. The trajectories of the particles in this…

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We analyze the diffusive transport of Brownian particles in narrow channels with periodically varying cross-section. The geometrical confinements lead to entropic barriers, the particle has to overcome in order to proceed in transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-06 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , Y. Li , P. Hanggi

Densely packed systems of thermal particles in curved geometries are frequently encountered in biological and microfluidic systems. In 2D systems, at sufficiently high surface coverage, diffusive motion is widely known to be strongly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-22 Remy Kusters , Stefan Paquay , Cornelis Storm

The problem of the diffusion evolution of a pore filled with molecular hydrogen in a spherical granule in a hydrogen medium is solved. The initial position of the pore is displaced relative to the center of the granule. A nonlinear system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 M. I. Kopp , P. N. Ostapchuk , V. V. Yanovsky

Quasilinear perpendicular diffusion of charged particles in fluctuating electromagnetic fields is the focus of this paper. A general transport parameter for perpendicular diffusion is presented being valid for an arbitrary turbulence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Stawicki

Past work has shown that ions can pass through a membrane more readily in one direction than the other. We demonstrate here in a model and an experiment that for a mixture of small and large particles such asymmetric diffusion can arise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert S. Shaw , Norman Packard , Matthias Schröter , Harry L. Swinney

Cavitation is a common phenomenon in nature and has numerous applications. In contrast to a cavitation bubble in a free domain, a cavitation bubble in a thin tube is restricted by the tube wall, which is expected to significantly affect…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-19 Nian Wang , Huashi Xu , Tianyou Wang , Zhizhao Che

We study packings of bidispersed spherical particles on a spherical surface. The presence of curvature necessitates defects even for monodispersed particles; bidispersity either leads to a more disordered packing for nearly equal radii, or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Andrew M. Mascioli , Christopher J. Burke , Timothy J. Atherton

We describe the double wall tube with cylindrical dislocation in the framework of the geometric theory of defects. The induced metric is found. The dispersion relation is obtained for the propagation of torsional elastic waves in the double…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. O. Katanaev

We consider subdiffusion of a particle in a one-dimensional system with a thin partially permeable wall. Passing through the wall, the particle can be absorbed with a certain probability. We call such a wall partially permeable partially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-17 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

We present a theory for the three-dimensional evolution of tubes with expandable walls conveying fluid. Our theory can accommodate arbitrary deformations of the tube, arbitrary elasticity of the walls, and both compressible and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-26 François Gay-Balmaz , Vakhtang Putkaradze

The transport properties of disordered systems are known to depend critically on dimensionality. We study the diffusion coefficient of a quantum particle confined to a lattice on the surface of a tube, where it scales between the 1D and 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Chern Chuang , Chee Kong Lee , Jeremy M. Moix , Jasper Knoester , Jianshu Cao

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

Understanding the coupling between flow, hydrodynamic transport and dispersion of colloids with finite-size in porous media is a long-standing challenge. This problem is relevant for a broad range of natural and engineered subsurface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-11 Mirko Residori , Simon Praetorius , Pietro de Anna , Axel Voigt

The transport of individual entities through interconnected structures is a process of practical relevance both in biology and technology. Examples are given by diffusive dynamics of molecules in porous structures. In soft environments,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-09 Jakob Mihatsch , Andreas M. Menzel

We investigate wave propagation in rotationally symmetric tubes with a periodic spatial modulation of cross section. Using an asymptotic perturbation analysis, the governing quasi two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation can be reduced…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-05 A. Ziepke , S. Martens , H. Engel

In many applications, transport of particles can be described by the diffusion equation, or its convective-diffusion generalizations, in part of three-dimensional space. In particular, in surface deposition or in growth of aggregates or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-12 Vladimir Privman , Jongsoon Park

Small particles are transported over long distances in the atmosphere, with significant environmental impact. The transport of symmetric particles is well understood, but atmospheric particles, such as curved microplastic fibres or ash…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-01 F. Candelier , K. Gustavsson , P. Sharma , L. Sundberg , A. Pumir , G. Bagheri , B. Mehlig

We briefly discuss how the wetting properties of a fluid/solid interface can indirectly influence the diffusion properties of fluid confined between two solid walls. This influence is related to the variability of the hydrodynamic boundary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yannick Alméras , Jean-Louis Barrat , Lydéric Bocquet

We consider the lateral diffusion of a protein interacting with the curvature of the membrane. The interaction energy is minimized if the particle is at a membrane position with a certain curvature that agrees with the spontaneous curvature…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-10 Stefan M. Leitenberger , Ellen Reister-Gottfried , Udo Seifert