Density-Dependent Speed-up of Particle Transport in Channels

Bimetallic Microswimmers Speed Up in Confining Channels.

Synthetic microswimmers are envisioned to be useful in numerous applications, many of which occur in tightly confined spaces. It is therefore important to understand how confinement influences swimmer dynamics. Here we study the motility of bimetallic microswimmers in linear and curved channels. Our experiments show swimmer velocities increase, up to 5 times, with the degree of confinement, and...

Entropic particle transport in periodic channels

The dynamics of Brownian motion has widespread applications extending from transport in designed micro-channels up to its prominent role for inducing transport in molecular motors and Brownian motors. Here, Brownian transport is studied in micro-sized, two-dimensional periodic channels, exhibiting periodically varying cross-sections. The particles in addition are subjected to an external force ...

Speed up of reindexing in adaptive particle swarm optimization

Palette re-ordering is a class of pre-processing method with the objective to manipulate the palette index such that the adjacent symbols are assigned close indices in the symbol space, thus enhancing the compressibility of the image with many lossless compressors. Finding an exact reordered palette would certainly be exhaustive and computationally complex. A solution to this NP hard problem is...

Density Gontrol Problems in Large Stellarators with Neoclassical Particle TransPort

With respect to the particle flux, the off-diagonal term in the neoclassical transport matrix becomes crucial in the stellarator long-mean-free-path (lmfp) regime. Central heating with peaked temperature profiles can make an active density profile control by central particle refuelling mandatory. The neoclassical particle confinement can exceed significantly the energy confinement at the outer ...

Chaotic particle transport in time-dependent Rayleigh-Bénard convection.