Short-time Rheology and Diffusion in Suspensions of Yukawa-type Colloidal Particles

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2011-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/1109.1163v1

J. Chem. Phys. 135, 154504 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3646962

A comprehensive study is presented on the short-time dynamics in suspensions of charged colloidal spheres. The explored parameter space covers the major part of the fluid-state regime, with colloid concentrations extending up to the freezing transition. The particles are assumed to interact directly by a hard-core plus screened Coulomb potential, and indirectly by solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions (HIs). By comparison with accurate accelerated Stokesian Dynamics (ASD) simulations of the hydrodynamic function H(q), and the high-frequency viscosity, we investigate the accuracy of two fast and easy-to-implement analytical schemes. The first scheme, referred to as the pairwise additive (PA) scheme, uses exact two-body hydrodynamic mobility tensors. It is in good agreement with the ASD simulations of H(q) and the high-frequency viscosity, for smaller volume fractions up to about 10% and 20%, respectively. The second scheme is a hybrid method combining the virtues of the \delta\gamma-scheme by Beenakker and Mazur with those of the PA scheme. It leads to predictions in good agreement with the simulation data, for all considered concentrations, combining thus precision with computational efficiency. The hybrid method is used to test the accuracy of a generalized Stokes-Einstein (GSE) relation proposed by Kholodenko and Douglas, showing its severe violation in low salinity systems. For hard spheres, however, this GSE relation applies decently well.

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