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Separation of bi-dispersed microspheres in dusty plasma ratchet experiments
Ting-yu Yao, Ji-xu Gao, Miao Tian +4
It is demonstrated experimentally that the effective separation of bi-dispersed microspheres (dust particles) in the underdamped and strongly-coupled regime is realized using a des…
Giant negative mobility of inertial particles caused by the periodic potential in steady laminar flows
Bao-quan Ai, Wei-jing Zhu, Ya-feng He +1
Transport of an inertial particle advected by a two-dimensional steady laminar flow is numerically investigated in the presences of a constant force and a periodic potential. Withi…
Effects of hydrodynamic interactions on rectified transport of self-propelled particles
Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, Wei-rong Zhong
Directed transport of self-propelled particles is numerically investigated in a three-dimensional asymmetric potential. Beside the steric repulsive forces, hydrodynamic interaction…
Chirality separation of mixed chiral microswimmers in a periodic channel
Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, Wei-rong Zhong
Dynamics and separation of mixed chiral microswimmers are numerically investigated in a channel with regular arrays of rigid half-circle obstacles. For zero shear flow, transport b…
Entropic Ratchet transport of interacting active Brownian particles
Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, Wei-rong Zhong
Directed transport of interacting active (self-propelled)Brownian particles is numerically investigated in confined geometries (entropic barriers). The self-propelled velocity can…
Rectification and diffusion of self-propelled particles in a two-dimensional corrugated channel
Bao-quan Ai, Qiu-yan Chen, Ya-feng He +2
Rectification and diffusion of non-interacting self-propelled particles is numerically investigated in a two-dimensional corrugated channel. From numerical simulations, we obtain t…
Interaction of multi-armed spirals in bistable media
Ya-feng He, Bao-quan Ai, Fu-cheng Liu
We study the interaction of both dense and sparse multi-armed spirals in bistable media modeled by equations of FitzHugh-Nagumo type. Dense 1-armed spiral is characterized by its f…
Particle diode: Rectification of interacting Brownian ratchets
Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, Wei-rong Zhong
Transport of Brownian particles interacting with each other via the Morse potential is investigated in the presence of an ac driving force applied locally at one end of the chain.…
Competition between ac driving-forces and Lévy flights in a nonthermal ratchet
Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He
Transport of overdamped particles in an asymmetrically periodic potential is investigated in the presence of Lévy noise and ac-driving forces. The group velocity is used to measure…
Transport in periodic potentials induced by fractional Gaussian noise
Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He, Wei-rong Zhong
Directed transport of overdamped Brownian particles driven by fractional Gaussian noises is investigated in asymmetrically periodic potentials. By using Langevin dynamics simulatio…
Transformation between dense and sparse spirals in symmetrical bistable media
Ya-feng He, Bao-quan Ai, Bambi Hu
Transformation between dense and sparse spirals is studied numerically based on a bistable FitzHugh-Nagumo model. It is found that the dense spiral can transform into two types of…
Time-delayed-feedback control of pattern formation in symmetrical bistable media
Ya-feng He, Bao-quan, Bambi Hu
Effects of time-delayed-feedback on pattern formation are studied in symmetrical bistable media. The results show that the time delay alters the behavior of the front bifurcation r…
Enhancement of the longitudinal transport by a weakly transversal drive
Yafeng He, Baoquan Ai
Transport of Brownian particles in a two-dimensional asymmetric tube is investigated by applying a polarized field. From the Brownian dynamics simulations we find that the longitud…
Directed transport driven by Lévy flights coexisting with subdiffusion
Bao-quan Ai, Ya-feng He
Transport of the Brownian particles driven by Lévy flights coexisting with subdiffusion in asymmetric periodic potentials is investigated in the absence of any external driving for…
Ballistic Thermal Transistor of Dielectric Four-terminal Nanostructures
Ping Yang, Bambi Hu
We report a theoretical model for a thermal transistor in dielectric four-terminal nanostructures based on mesoscopic ballistic phonon transport, in which a steady thermal flow con…