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American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 1(90)

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.010301

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Anomalous preasymptotic colloid transport by hydrodynamic dispersion in microfluidic capillary flow

Journal article published in 2014 by Einar Orn Fridjonsson, Joseph D. Seymour ORCID, Sarah L. Codd
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Abstract

The anomalous preasymptotic transport of colloids in a microfluidic capillary flow due to hydrodynamic dispersion is measured by noninvasive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The data indicate a reduced scaling of mean squared displacement with time from the 〈z(t)^{2}〉_{c}∼t^{3} behavior for the interaction of a normal diffusion process with a simple shear flow. This nonequilibrium steady-state system is shown to be modeled by a continuous time random walk (CTRW) on a moving fluid. The full propagator of the motion is measured by NMR, providing verification of the assumption of Gaussian jump length distributions in the CTRW model. The connection of the data to microrheology measurements by NMR, in which every particle in a suspension contributes information, is established.