Virial theorem and dynamical evolution of self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations in an unbounded domain

Details Virial theorem and dynamical evolution of self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations in an unbounded domain Virial theorem and dynamical evolution of self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations in an unbounded domain

2005-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504718v3

Phys. Rev. E, 73, 066103 (2006) [Part I]; Phys. Rev. E, 73, 066104 (2006) [Part II]

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.73.066103

We derive the Virial theorem appropriate to the generalized Smoluchowski-Poisson system describing self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations (chemotaxis). We extend previous works by considering the case of an unbounded domain and an arbitrary equation of state. We use the Virial theorem to study the diffusion (evaporation) of an isothermal Brownian gas above the critical temperature T_c in dimension d=2 and show how the effective diffusion coefficient and the Einstein relation are modified by self-gravity or chemotactic attraction. We also study the collapse at T=T_c and show that the central density increases logarithmically with time instead of exponentially in a bounded domain. Finally, for d>2, we show that the evaporation of the system is essentially a pure diffusion slightly slowed-down by self-gravity. We also study the linear dynamical stability of stationary solutions of the generalized Smoluchowski-Poisson system representing isolated clusters of particles and investigate the influence of the equation of state and of the dimension of space on the dynamical stability of the system. Finally, we propose a general kinetic and hydrodynamic description of self-gravitating Brownian particles and biological populations and recover known models in some particular limits.

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