Kitahata Hiroyuki, Yoshinaga Natsuhiko, Nagai Ken H, Sumino Yutaka
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2011 Jul;84(1 Pt 2):015101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.015101. Epub 2011 Jul 13.
We propose a framework for the spontaneous motion of a droplet coupled with internal dynamic patterns generated in a reaction-diffusion system. The spatiotemporal order of the chemical reaction gives rise to inhomogeneous surface tension and results in self-propulsion driven by the surrounding flow due to the Marangoni effect. Numerical calculations of internal patterns together with theoretical results of the flow fields at low Reynolds number reproduce well the experimental results obtained using a droplet of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction medium.
我们提出了一个框架,用于描述液滴的自发运动以及在反应扩散系统中产生的内部动态模式。化学反应的时空顺序导致表面张力不均匀,并由于马兰戈尼效应而在周围流体的驱动下产生自推进力。内部模式的数值计算以及低雷诺数下的流场理论结果很好地再现了使用贝洛索夫-扎博廷斯基反应介质液滴所获得的实验结果。