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Field-flow fractionation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Ronald Smith
Ronald Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EW
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Abstract

If different contaminant species are subject to different transverse drift rates (e.g. gravitational settling), then there is a tendency for the species to separate out. The efficiency of this separation depends upon the relative shapes of the longitudinal concentration distributions. Jayaraj & Subramanian (1978) have drawn attention to the disparity between their computed skew concentration distributions and the symmetric Gaussian distributions predicted by one-dimensional diffusion models. Here it is shown that a one-dimensional delay-diffusion model yields suitably skew predictions. The model equation is used to investigate the extent to which the separation of different contaminant species can be improved by pre-treating the sample (i.e. allowing differential drift) in a stationary fluid before being eluted into the shear flow. Pretreatment is found to be very effective for plane Poiseuille flow but not for the thermogravitational columns.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 129 , April 1983 , pp. 347 - 364
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© 1983 Cambridge University Press

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