Giant amplification of interfacially driven transport by hydrodynamic slip: diffusio-osmosis and beyond.
We demonstrate that "moderate" departures from the no-slip hydrodynamic boundary condition (hydrodynamic slip lengths in the nanometer range) can result in a very large enhancement--up to 2 orders of magnitude--of most interfacially driven transport phenomena. We study analytically and numerically the case of neutral solute diffusio-osmosis in a slab geometry to account for nontrivial couplings between interfacial structure and hydrodynamic slip. Possible outcomes are fast transport of particles in externally applied or self-generated gradient, and flow enhancement in nano- or microfluidic geometries.
Ajdari
Armand
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Physico-Chimie Théorique, UMR 7083 CNRS-ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris, France.
Bocquet
Lydéric
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