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The transport of active particles in straight channels is numerically investigated. The periodic wedge-shaped barriers can produce the asymmetry of the system and induce the directed transport of the active particles. The direction of the transport is determined by the apex angle of the wedge-shaped barriers. By confining the particles in channels with hard and soft walls, the transport exhibits similar behaviors. The average velocity is a peaked function of the translational diffusion, while it decreases monotonously with the increase of the rotational diffusion. Moreover, the simulation results show that the transport is sensitive to the parameters of the confined structures, such as the pore width, the intensity of potential, and the channel period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transport of the finite size spherical Brownian particles is investigated in confined narrow channels with varying cross-section width. Applying the Fick-Jacobs approximation, we obtain the expressions of the particle current, the effective diffusion coefficient, and the coherence level of Brownian transport (the Péclet number). For the case of the biased constant force, the dependencies of the nonlinear mobility, the effective diffusion coefficient, and the Péclet number on the particle size exhibit striking behaviors. The Péclet number decreases with increasing the radius of the particle which shows that the big sizes of the particles reduce the coherence level of Brownian transport. There exists an optimized value of the radius at which the effective diffusion coefficient is maximal. For the case of the asymmetric unbiased force, due to the competition between the spatial asymmetry and the temporal asymmetry, the transport directions of the particles depend very sensitively on the size of the particle. Particles larger than a given threshold radius move to the left, whereas particles smaller than that move to the right. Therefore, one can separate particles of different radii and make them move towards opposite directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]