Anisotropic transport of microalgae Chlorella vulgaris in microfluidic channel

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/8/088203

Abstract

In this work, we study the regional dependence of transport behavior of microalgae Chlorella vulgaris inside microfluidic channel on applied fluid flow rate. The microalgae are treated as spherical naturally buoyant particles. Deviation from the normal diffusion or Brownian transport is characterized based on the scaling behavior of the mean square displacement (MSD) of the particle trajectories by resolving the displacements in the streamwise (flow) and perpendicular directions. The channel is divided into three different flow regions, namely center region of the channel and two near-wall boundaries and the particle motions are analyzed at different flow rates. We use the scaled Brownian motion to model the transitional characteristics in the scaling behavior of the MSDs. We find that there exist anisotropic anomalous transports in all the three flow regions with mixed sub-diffusive, normal and super-diffusive behavior in both longitudinal and transverse directions.

Keywords: Brownian motion anomalous transport scaled Brownian motion microfluidic Chlorella vulgaris

Received: 06 March 2017
Revised: 12 April 2017
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PACS:	82.70.-y	(Disperse systems; complex fluids)
	05.40.-a	(Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion)
	83.80.Hj	(Suspensions, dispersions, pastes, slurries, colloids)
	47.15.G-

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Project supported by the Science Fund from the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Grant No. FRGS: FP057-2014A) and the Fund from the University of Malaya Research Grant (Grant No. UMRG: RP020A-14AFR).

Corresponding Authors: Nur Izzati Ishak
E-mail: izzati_91_ishak@siswa.um.edu.my

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Nur Izzati Ishak, S V Muniandy, Vengadesh Periasamy, Fong-Lee Ng, Siew-Moi Phang Anisotropic transport of microalgae Chlorella vulgaris in microfluidic channel 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 088203

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