Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions with Thermal Fluctuations

Details Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions with Thermal Fluctuations Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions with Thermal Fluctuations

2010-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/1009.5648v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

24 pages, 3 figures

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We present approaches for the study of fluid-structure interactions subject to thermal fluctuations. A mixed mechanical description is utilized combining Eulerian and Lagrangian reference frames. We establish general conditions for operators coupling these descriptions. Stochastic driving fields for the formalism are derived using principles from statistical mechanics. The stochastic differential equations of the formalism are found to exhibit significant stiffness in some physical regimes. To cope with this issue, we derive reduced stochastic differential equations for several physical regimes. We also present stochastic numerical methods for each regime to approximate the fluid-structure dynamics and to generate efficiently the required stochastic driving fields. To validate the methodology in each regime, we perform analysis of the invariant probability distribution of the stochastic dynamics of the fluid-structure formalism. We compare this analysis with results from statistical mechanics. To further demonstrate the applicability of the methodology, we perform computational studies for spherical particles having translational and rotational degrees of freedom. We compare these studies with results from fluid mechanics. The presented approach provides for fluid-structure systems a set of rather general computational methods for treating consistently structure mechanics, hydrodynamic coupling, and thermal fluctuations.

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