Diffusion Mediatd Transport and the Brownian Motor



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David Kinderlehrer
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of mathematical Sciences
Pittsburgh, PA 1 5213
davidk@andrew.cmu.edu



Abstract We describe a dissipation principle/variational principle which may be useful in modeling motion in small viscous systems and provide brief illustrations to brownian motor or molecular rachet situations which are found in intracellular transport.

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