Local and global force balance for diffusiophoretic transport

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.137zbMATH Open1460.76761arXiv1910.13901OpenAlexW3014725258WikidataQ91788225 ScholiaQ91788225MaRDI QIDQ5222605FDOQ5222605

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Publication date: 6 April 2020

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Electro- and diffusio- phoresis of particles correspond respectively to the transport of particles under electric field and solute concentration gradients. Such interfacial transport phenomena take their origin in a diffuse layer close to the particle surface, and the motion of the particle is force-free. In the case of electrophoresis, it is further expected that the stress acting on the moving particle vanishes locally as a consequence of local electroneutrality. But the argument does not apply to diffusiophoresis, which takes its origin in solute concentration gradients. In this paper we investigate further the local and global force balance on a particle undergoing diffusiophoresis. We calculate the local tension applied on the particle surface and show that, counter-intuitively, the local force on the particle does not vanish for diffusiophoresis, in spite of the global force being zero as expected. Incidentally, our description allows to clarify the osmotic balance in diffusiophoresis, which has been a source of debates in the recent years. We explore various cases, including hard and soft interactions, as well as porous particles, and provide analytic predictions for the local force balance in these various systems. The existence of local stresses may induce deformation of soft particles undergoing diffusiophoresis, hence suggesting applications in terms of particle separation based on capillary diffusiophoresis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13901

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zbMATH Keywords

porous mediamicrofluidics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

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