Event-Driven Brownian Dynamics for Hard Spheres

Details Event-Driven Brownian Dynamics for Hard Spheres Event-Driven Brownian Dynamics for Hard Spheres

2006-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607040v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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Brownian dynamics algorithms integrate numerically Langevin equations and allow to probe long time scales in simulations. A common requirement for such algorithms is that interactions in the system should vary little during an integration time step: therefore, computational efficiency worsens as the interactions become steeper. In the extreme case of hard-body interactions, standard numerical integrators become ill defined. Several approximate schemes have been invented to handle such cases with little emphasis on testing the correctness of the integration scheme. Starting from the two-body Smoluchowsky equation, we discuss a general method for the overdamped Brownian dynamics of hard-spheres, recently developed by one of us. We test the accuracy of the algorithm with the exact solution of the Smoluchowsky equation in the case of twobody collisions and in the low-density limit.

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