title: Cellular automata models of the influences on solute diffusion through water.
abstract: A cellular automata (CA) model of liquid water has been used to study self-diffusion and the diffusion of a solute. The influences of temperature and solute hydropathic state are modeled as variables in this process. The self-diffusion model correlates very well with earlier experimental data. The diffusion of a solute experiences variation with temperature and its hydropathic states. These influences are found to relate to models of free hydroxy groups and the average cavity cluster size in bulk water. These preliminary models serve as the basis for modeling solute diffusion for specific contaminants of interest (such as heavy metals like uranium) in a water system, and addressing its migration patterns with water relative to temperature.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: Lemont B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Kier
authors.forename: Cho-Kun
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Jean D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Nelson