Brownian dynamics of confined suspensions of active microrollers
| Autor: | Aleksandar Donev, Blaise Delmotte, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Physics
Finite difference method Finite difference General Physics and Astronomy Thermal fluctuations FOS: Physical sciences Mechanics Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter 01 natural sciences Instability 010305 fluids & plasmas 0103 physical sciences Brownian dynamics Initial value problem Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) Stochastic drift Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 010306 general physics Brownian motion |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of chemical physics. 146(13) |
| ISSN: | 1089-7690 |
| Popis: | We develop efficient numerical methods for performing many-body Brownian dynamics simulations of a recently-observed fingering instability in an active suspension of colloidal rollers sedimented above a wall [M. Driscoll, B. Delmotte, M. Youssef, S. Sacanna, A. Donev and P. Chaikin, Nature Physics, 2016, doi:10.1038/nphys3970]. We present a stochastic Adams-Bashforth integrator for the equations of Brownian dynamics, which has the same cost as but is more accurate than the widely-used Euler-Maruyama scheme, and uses a random finite difference to capture the stochastic drift proportional to the divergence of the configuration-dependent mobility matrix. We generate the Brownian increments using a Krylov method, and show that for particles confined to remain in the vicinity of a no-slip wall by gravity or active flows the number of iterations is independent of the number of particles. Our numerical experiments with active rollers show that the thermal fluctuations set the characteristic height of the colloids above the wall, both in the initial condition and the subsequent evolution dominated by active flows. The characteristic height in turn controls the timescale and wavelength for the development of the fingering instability. Comment: Revised and resubmitted to J. Chem. Phys |
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