Pumping Fluid by a Ratchet (IMAGE)

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Pumping Fluid by a Ratchet

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When a fluid is squeezed and expanded repeatedly between two sawtooth-like boundaries, a net flow is generated to the right.

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B. Thiria & J. Zhang

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