Solutal convection around growing protein crystals and diffusional purification in Space

摘要

Convective and diffusional mass transport to an isolated crystal growing from solution, with slow linear interface kinetics, is considered analytically as a generic scaling model. We focus on the interface kinetics which is slow as compared to the diffusion mass transport which is typical of protein crystal growth. Independently, full-scale numerical solutions of transport equations around a cylindrical crystal, at the center of the bottom of a cylindrical cell filled with the solution, are found.