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Mechanical instability and percolation of deformable particles through porous networks

Eduard Benet, Guillaume Lostec, John Pellegrino, and Franck Vernerey*

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA

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Phys. Rev. E 97, 042607 – Published 19 April, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.042607

Abstract

The transport of micron-sized particles such as bacteria, cells, or synthetic lipid vesicles through porous spaces is a process relevant to drug delivery, separation systems, or sensors, to cite a few examples. Often, the motion of these particles depends on their ability to squeeze through small constrictions, making their capacity to deform an important factor for their permeation. However, it is still unclear how the mechanical behavior of these particles affects collective transport through porous networks. To address this issue, we present a method to reconcile the pore-scale mechanics of the particles with the Darcy scale to understand the motion of a deformable particle through a porous network. We first show that particle transport is governed by a mechanical instability occurring at the pore scale, which leads to a binary permeation response on each pore. Then, using the principles of directed bond percolation, we are able to link this microscopic behavior to the probability of permeating through a random porous network. We show that this instability, together with network uniformity, are key to understanding the nonlinear permeation of particles at a given pressure gradient. The results are then summarized by a phase diagram that predicts three distinct permeation regimes based on particle properties and the randomness of the pore network.

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Phys. Rev. E 97, 042607– Published 19 April, 2018
  • Received 25 October 2017
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