Effective flows across diffusio-phoretic membranes
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| author | Wittkowski, Kevin Ledda, Pier Giuseppe Giordano, Edoardo Carlo Gallaire, François Zampogna, Giuseppe Antonio |
| author_facet | Wittkowski, Kevin Ledda, Pier Giuseppe Giordano, Edoardo Carlo Gallaire, François Zampogna, Giuseppe Antonio |
| contents | Flows enabled by phoretic mechanisms are of significant interest in several biological and biomedical processes, such as bacterial motion and targeted drug delivery. Here, we develop a homogenization-based macroscopic boundary condition which describes the effective flow across a diffusiophoretic microstructured membrane, where the interaction between the membrane walls and the solute particles is modeled via a potential-approach. We consider two cases where potential variations occur (i) at the pore scale and (ii) only in the close vicinity of the boundary, enabling a simplified version of the macroscopic flow description, in the latter case. Chemical interactions at the microscale are rigorously upscaled to macroscopic phoretic solvent velocity and solute flux contributions, and added to the classical permeability and diffusivity properties of the membrane. These properties stem from the solution of Stokes-advection-diffusion problems at the microscale, some of them forced by an interaction potential term. Eventually, we show an application of the macroscopic model to develop minimal phoretic pumps, showcasing its suitability for efficient design and optimization procedures. |
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| spellingShingle | Effective flows across diffusio-phoretic membranes Wittkowski, Kevin Ledda, Pier Giuseppe Giordano, Edoardo Carlo Gallaire, François Zampogna, Giuseppe Antonio Fluid Dynamics Flows enabled by phoretic mechanisms are of significant interest in several biological and biomedical processes, such as bacterial motion and targeted drug delivery. Here, we develop a homogenization-based macroscopic boundary condition which describes the effective flow across a diffusiophoretic microstructured membrane, where the interaction between the membrane walls and the solute particles is modeled via a potential-approach. We consider two cases where potential variations occur (i) at the pore scale and (ii) only in the close vicinity of the boundary, enabling a simplified version of the macroscopic flow description, in the latter case. Chemical interactions at the microscale are rigorously upscaled to macroscopic phoretic solvent velocity and solute flux contributions, and added to the classical permeability and diffusivity properties of the membrane. These properties stem from the solution of Stokes-advection-diffusion problems at the microscale, some of them forced by an interaction potential term. Eventually, we show an application of the macroscopic model to develop minimal phoretic pumps, showcasing its suitability for efficient design and optimization procedures. |
| title | Effective flows across diffusio-phoretic membranes |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22197 |