Entropic particle transport: higher order corrections to the Fick-Jacobs diffusion equation

Details Entropic particle transport: higher order corrections to the Fick-Jacobs diffusion equation Entropic particle transport: higher order corrections to the Fick-Jacobs diffusion equation

2011-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/1102.4808v1

Phys.Rev.E 83 (2011) 051135

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.83.051135

Transport of point-size Brownian particles under the influence of a constant and uniform force field through a three-dimensional channel with smoothly varying periodic cross-section is investigated. Here, we employ an asymptotic analysis in the ratio between the difference of the widest and the most narrow constriction divided through the period length of the channel geometry. We demonstrate that the leading order term is equivalent to the Fick-Jacobs approximation. By use of the higher order corrections to the probability density we derive an expression for the spatially dependent diffusion coefficient D(x) which substitutes the constant diffusion coefficient present in the common Fick-Jacobs equation. In addition, we show that in the diffusion dominated regime the average transport velocity is obtained as the product of the zeroth-order Fick-Jacobs result and the expectation value of the spatially dependent diffusion coefficient . The analytic findings are corroborated with the precise numerical results of a finite element calculation of the Smoluchowski diffusive particle dynamics occurring in a reflection symmetric sinusoidal-shaped channel.

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