All species, except when the Immobile Species checkbox has been enabled, may be transported by diffusion, and charged species are also transported by migration in the electric field.
For dissociation species you can choose to set the transport parameters to be the Same for all species appearing in the different dissociation steps, or you can use
Individual settings for each subspecies.
Typically the mobilities and diffusivities for small species are related by the Nernst–Einstein relation, and when this relation is enabled you can choose whether to specify either the
Diffusivity (SI unit: m
2/s) or the
Mobility (SI-unit: s·mol/kg). The
Debye–Hückel–Henry relation is commonly used for larger molecules, such as proteins.
If Mass transfer in porous media is enabled on the interface top node, you can use the settings of this section in the species nodes to account for the changed mass transport in a porous domain due to the lowered porosity and the increased tortuosity.
The default correction model is Bruggeman, which multiplies the diffusivity and mobility values by the porosity to the power of 1.5. The porosity of a domain is set by the
Porous Matrix Properties node.
The Debye–Hückel–Henry relation makes use of the ionic strength for calculating the species mobility from the diffusivity. All charged species contribute to the ionic strength, either assuming the species contributing to an
Ideal solution or by using the
Linderstrøm-Lang assumption. The latter is usually used for macromolecules.