@Article{CiCP-9-1362,
author = {Giuseppe De Prisco and Xiaowen Shan},
title = {Mass Transport/Diffusion and Surface Reaction Process with Lattice Boltzmann},
journal = {Communications in Computational Physics},
year = {2011},
volume = {9},
number = {5},
pages = {1362--1374},
abstract = {<p style="text-align: justify;">Multi-component flow with chemical reactions is a common problem in
different industrial applications: the mixing chamber of a reaction injection molding
(RIM) machine; the dynamics of diesel soot particles interacting with a porous-ceramic
particulate filter; reactive transport in porous media; bio-chemical processes involving
enzyme-catalyzed kinetics. In all these cases, mass diffusion/convection and wall
or volume chemical interactions among components play an important role. In the
present paper we underline the importance of diffusion/convection/reaction mechanisms
in bio-chemical processes using the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) technique. The
bio-application where we studied diffusion/convection/reaction mechanisms is the
quorum-sensing pathway for the bio-synthesis of the AI-2, a molecule that allows the
bacteria to launch a coordinated attack on a host immune system (see [9, 10] for more
details of the bio-application). The overall goal is to create a micro-device to screen potential
drugs that inhibit AI-2 bio-synthesis. The Michaelis-Menten saturation kinetic
model is implemented at the reactive surface and the results are shown in terms of two
dimensionless numbers: Damkohler (Da) and Peclet (Pe) number. For high Pe number
a small conversion of reactants into products is obtained at the reactive surface, but
the overall flux of products is high; moreover, a fast saturation of the conversion of
reactants to products is obtained for high Da numbers. The trade-off for setting the Pe
and Da numbers depends on the specific application and the technologies used in the
micro-device (e.g., sensitivity of the detector, cost of reactants).</p>},
issn = {1991-7120},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.021009.241210s},
url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7557.html}
}