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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 101, 期 17, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.178102
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- EPSRC
- University of Leiden
- Human Frontier Science Program
- DOE [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Leverhulme Trust
- Schlumberger Chair Fund
Cytoplasmic streaming circulates the contents of large eukaryotic cells, often with complex flow geometries. A largely unanswered question is the significance of these flows for molecular transport and mixing. Motivated by rotational streaming in Characean algae, we solve the advection-diffusion dynamics of flow in a cylinder with bidirectional helical forcing at the wall. A circulatory flow transverse to the cylinder's long axis, akin to Dean vortices at finite Reynolds numbers, arises from the chiral geometry. Strongly enhanced lateral transport and longitudinal homogenization occur if the transverse Peclet number is sufficiently large, with scaling laws arising from boundary layers.
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