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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 55: Posters - Soft Matter, Glasses

DY 55.12: Poster

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 17:00–19:30, P1A

Induced anomalous diffusion nearby elastic interfaces — •Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider, Achim Guckenberger, and Stephan Gekle — Biofluid Simulation and Modeling, Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, Bayreuth 95440, Germany

The approach of a small particle to the cell membrane represents the crucial step before active internalization and is governed by thermal diffusion. Using a fully analytical theory, we show that the membrane induces a long-lived subdiffusive behavior on the nearby particle, during which the residence time is increased by up to 50 % for a typical scenario. The corresponding scaling exponent is found to be as low as 0.87 in the perpendicular direction, and as low as 0.92 in the parallel direction. Such behavior is qualitatively different from the normal diffusion near a hard wall or in a bulk fluid. A good agreement is found for the frequency dependent mobility between the analytical predictions and the numerical simulations that we performed using a boundary integral method.

References

[1] Daddi-Moussa-Ider, A., Guckenberger, A. and Gekle, S., Phys. Rev. E 93, 012612 (2016)

[2] Daddi-Moussa-Ider, A., Guckenberger, A. and Gekle, S., Phys. Fluids 28, 071903 (2016)