Dynamic Monte Carlo simulations are used to study coupled transport (co-transport) through sub-nanometer-diameter pores. In this classic Hodgkin-Keynes mechanism, an ion species uses the large flux of an abundant ion species to move against its concentration gradient. The efficiency of co-transport is examined for various pore parameters so that synthetic nanopores can be engineered to maximize...

Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) are engineered reservoirs created to economically extract heat from low permeability and/or porosity geothermal resources. Existing geochemical reactive transport models for such systems lack essential data on the structure of the pore systems in geothermal reservoirs, and how they evolve in the relevant ranges of temperature, pressure, composition, and length ...

I discuss the strong link between transmission line (TL) equation and TL circuit model for charging of an electrolyte-filled pore finite length. In particular, show how Robin Neumann boundary conditions to equation, proposed by others on physical grounds, also emerge in subject a stepwise potential. The relaxes with timescale $\ensuremath{\tau}$, expression which consistently follows from circu...

In this paper, we investigate the microscopic dynamics of a polymer of length N translocating through a narrow pore. Characterization of its purportedly anomalous dynamics has so far remained incomplete. We show that the polymer dynamics is anomalous until the Rouse time τR ∼ N 1+2ν , with a mean square displacement through the pore consistent with t(1+ν)/(1+2ν), with ν ≈ 0.588 the Flory expone...

The development of solid-state nanopores, inspired by their biological counterparts, shows great potential for the study of single macromolecules. Applications such as DNA sequencing and the exploration of protein folding require control of the dynamics of the molecule's interaction with the pore, but DNA capture by a solid-state nanopore is not well understood. By recapturing individual molecu...

The pore size distribution in paper, measured by uid permeation perpendicular to the plane of the sheet, is known to be approximately lognormal with standard deviation proportional to the mean. Also, this corresponds quite well to the polygonal size distribution arising from a random array of lines in a plane, which may be approximated using the negative exponential distribution for inter-cross...

In this work we compute the effective thermal conductivity of porous Si by means of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation. Simulations of heat transport across aligned square pores reveal that the thermal conductivity can be decreased either by increasing the pore size or decreasing the pore spacing. Furthermore, by including the surface specularity parameter we show that the roughness of the...

We present a model of biofilm growth in a long channel where the biomass is assumed to have the rheology of a viscous polymer solution. We examine the competition between growth and erosion-like surface detachment due to the flow. A particular focus of our investigation is the effect of the biofilm growth on the fluid flow in the pores, and the issue of whether biomass can grow sufficiently to ...

When nonwetting fluid displaces wetting fluid in a porous rock many rapid pore-scale displacement events occur. These events are often referred to as Haines jumps and any drainage process in porous media is an ensemble of such events. However, the relevance of Haines jumps for larger scale models is often questioned. A common counter argument is that the high fluid velocities caused by a Haines...

A random-walk simulation program was developed to study the effect of dephasing spins in a uniform magnetic-field gradient in a porous material. It is shown that this simulation program correctly reproduces basic nuclear magnetic resonance behavior, such as the formation of a spin echo. The spin-echo decay due to dephasing in a nonrestricted medium gives the well-known exponential relation cont...