ArticleChemical physics2010
Diffusion in a tube of alternating diameter.
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- Diffusion Resistance of Segmented Channels.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2023Article
- Effective diffusivity of a Brownian particle in a two-dimensional periodic channel of abruptly alternating width.Physical review. E · 2021Article
- Trapping of particles diffusing in two dimensions by a hidden binding site.Physical review. E · 2021Article
- From plasmodesma geometry to effective symplasmic permeability through biophysical modelling.eLife · 2019Article
- A Model for the Transient Subdiffusive Behavior of Particles in Mucus.Biophysical journal · 2017Article
- Visualization of Ca2+ Filling Mechanisms upon Synaptic Inputs in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Article
- Biased diffusion in tubes of alternating diameter: Numerical study over a wide range of biasing force.The Journal of chemical physics · 2015Article
- Biased diffusion in tubes of alternating diameter: analytical treatment in the case of strong bias.The Journal of chemical physics · 2014Article
- Effective diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle in a periodically expanded conical tube.Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics · 2013Article
- Driven diffusion in a periodically compartmentalized tube: homogeneity versus intermittency of particle motion.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2011Article
- Biased diffusion in tubes formed by spherical compartments.The Journal of chemical physics · 2010Article
- Unbiased diffusion in tubes with corrugated walls.The Journal of chemical physics · 2010Article
- One-dimensional description of diffusion in a tube of abruptly changing diameter: Boundary homogenization based approach.The Journal of chemical physics · 2009Article
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Abstract
The paper deals with diffusion of a particle in a tube that consists of alternating wide and narrow sections. At sufficiently long times the particle motion can be coarse-grained and described as effective free-diffusion along the tube axis. In the coarse-grained description all the details of the tube geometry are packed into the effective diffusion coefficient of the particle. We derive a formula for the effective diffusion coefficient, which shows how it depends on the geometric parameters of the tube. To test the accuracy of this formula we compare its predictions with the values of the effective diffusion coefficient found in Brownian dynamics simulations. The comparison shows that the formula is applicable at arbitrary values of the length and radius of the narrow sections on condition that the radius of the wide sections does not exceed their length.
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