Model number
0395

Models diffusion through one dimensional slab with a constant diffusion coefficient, D, with flux into recipient chamber on right used to estimate the diffusion coefficient. Model includes partition coefficient.

Description

    In this model we calculate the one dimensional diffusion across a region 
    with a single rate of diffusion, D. On the left hand side the concentration
    is held constant (mixed, large reservoir) and at the right hand side is set at 0 mM at t=0
    in VolR, the recipient mixing chamber.  The partition coefficient, lambda, is the
    ratio of the concentration immediately inside the slab or region of diffusion
    to that immediately outside the region. It has been set to 0.9 in the example.
    This model serves as the basis for all the other slab diffusion model in which 
    the diffusion domain may have heterogeneities in thickness, in internal binding,
    in paths through cells and around them.
                            
                   OCEAN      |     SLAB        |  Recipient Chamber
                              |   Concn = C     |
                 CL0 = 10 mM  |                 |  CR0 = 0 mM
                              |  D = Diff Coeff |
                              |                 |  VolR
                              |                 |
                              |    C0 = 0 mM    |
                              |                 |
                             x=0  Thickness    x=L

fig 1

Equations

None.

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Key terms
Diffusion
Constant diffusion coefficient
PDE
Concentration
One slab
Transport physiology RELATED MODELS: #202: Safford 1977 Dead end pore model for Calciium diffusion in muscle #205: Safford 1978 Water diffusion in heart #193: Suenson 1974 Diffusion in heart tissue
sucrose and water #135: Two slab model: Facil_Diffusion_2Region #184: RandomWalk1D #212: TwoSlab Diffusion: different diffusion coeffs in adjacent slabs require special boundary condition
Acknowledgements

Please cite https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/physiome in any publication for which this software is used and send one reprint to the address given below:
The National Simulation Resource, Director J. B. Bassingthwaighte, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-5061.

Model development and archiving support at https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/physiome provided by the following grants: NIH U01HL122199 Analyzing the Cardiac Power Grid, 09/15/2015 - 05/31/2020, NIH/NIBIB BE08407 Software Integration, JSim and SBW 6/1/09-5/31/13; NIH/NHLBI T15 HL88516-01 Modeling for Heart, Lung and Blood: From Cell to Organ, 4/1/07-3/31/11; NSF BES-0506477 Adaptive Multi-Scale Model Simulation, 8/15/05-7/31/08; NIH/NHLBI R01 HL073598 Core 3: 3D Imaging and Computer Modeling of the Respiratory Tract, 9/1/04-8/31/09; as well as prior support from NIH/NCRR P41 RR01243 Simulation Resource in Circulatory Mass Transport and Exchange, 12/1/1980-11/30/01 and NIH/NIBIB R01 EB001973 JSim: A Simulation Analysis Platform, 3/1/02-2/28/07.