Impurity effects in thermal regelation.

When a particle is placed in a material with a lower bulk melting temperature, intermolecular forces can lead to the existence of a "premelted" liquid film of the lower melting temperature material. Despite the system being below the melting temperatures of both solids, the liquid film is a consequence of thermodynamic equilibrium, controlled by intermolecular, ionic and other interactions. An imposed temperature gradient drives the translation of the particle by a process of melting and refreezing known as "thermal regelation".

Hydrodynamic interactions and the diffusivity of spheroidal particles.

It is intuitive that the diffusivity of an isolated particle differs from those in a monodisperse suspension, in which hydrodynamic interactions between the particles are operative. Batchelor [J. Fluid Mech.