Brownian motion of finite-inertia particles in a simple shear flow

Details Brownian motion of finite-inertia particles in a simple shear flow Brownian motion of finite-inertia particles in a simple shear flow

2005-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0501582v1

Physical Review E 71, 031113 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

14 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.71.031113

Simultaneous diffusive and inertial motion of Brownian particles in laminar Couette flow is investigated via Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions to determine the effect of particle inertia on diffusive transport in the long-time. The classical fluctuation dissipation theorem is used to calculate the amplitude of random-force correlations, thereby neglecting corrections of the order of the molecular relaxation time to the inverse shear rate. The analytic, non-perturbative, evaluation of the particle-phase total pressure, which is calculated to be second order in the Stokes number (a dimensionless measure of particle inertia), shows that the particle phase behaves as a non-Newtonian fluid. The generalized Smoluchowski convective-diffusion equation contains a shear-dependent cross derivative term and an additional term along the streamwise direction, quadratic in the particle Stokes number. The long-time diffusion coefficients associated with the particle flux relative to the carrier flow are found to depend on particle inertia such that the streamwise diffusion coefficient becomes negative with increasing Stokes number, whereas one of the cross coefficients is always negative. The total diffusion coefficients measuring the rate of change of particle mean square displacement are always positive as expected from general stability arguments.

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