Sébastien Michelin (Ladhyx, École Polytechnique) : advective effects in the self-propulsion of autophoretic particles

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2 juin 2014 11:15 » 12:15 — Bibliothèque PCT - F3.04

Advective effects in the self-propulsion of autophoretic particles

Autophoretic particles are able to self-propel in low-Reynolds-number flows using short range interactions between their surface and solute molecules produced or consumed by chemical reaction catalyzed at the particle’s surface. The resulting motion is a fundamental example of synthetic particles achieving force-free and torque-free propulsion with no external forcing.

In the well-studied diffusive limit, the solute distribution around the particle is completely decoupled from the hydrodynamics problem. When advection is no longer negligible (e.g. for larger or more chemically-active particles), the solute dynamics is fully coupled with the phoretic flows generated by the solute-particle interactions. In this work, we investigate the effect of this advection on the dynamics of a single spherical particle.





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