Influence of hydrodynamics on many-particle diffusion in 2D colloidal suspensions

Details Influence of hydrodynamics on many-particle diffusion in 2D colloidal suspensions Influence of hydrodynamics on many-particle diffusion in 2D colloidal suspensions

2003-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302096v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1140/epje/i2003-10075-9

We study many-particle diffusion in 2D colloidal suspensions with full hydrodynamic interactions through a novel mesoscopic simulation technique. We focus on the behaviour of the effective scaled tracer and collective diffusion coefficients $D_T(\rho) / D_0$ and $D_C(\rho) / D_0$, where $D_0$ is the single-particle diffusion coefficient, as a function of the density of the colloids $\rho$. At low Schmidt numbers $Sc={\cal O}(1)$, we find that hydrodynamics has essentially no effect on the behaviour of $D_T(\rho)/D_0$. At larger $Sc$, $D_T(\rho)/D_0$ is enhanced at all densities, although the differences compared to the case without hydrodynamics are minor. The collective diffusion coefficient, on the other hand, is much more strongly coupled to hydrodynamical conservation laws and is distinctly different from the purely dissipative case.

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