Dynamic Density Functional Theory with Inertia and Background Flow

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Hauptverfasser: Mills-Williams, Rory D., Goddard, Benjamin D., Archer, Andrew J.
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author Mills-Williams, Rory D.
Goddard, Benjamin D.
Archer, Andrew J.
author_facet Mills-Williams, Rory D.
Goddard, Benjamin D.
Archer, Andrew J.
contents We present dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) incorporating general inhomogeneous, incompressible, time dependent background flows and inertia, describing externally driven passive colloidal systems out of equilibrium. We start by considering the underlying nonequilibrium Langevin dynamics, including the effect of the local velocity of the surrounding liquid bath, to obtain the nonlinear, nonlocal partial differential equations governing the evolution of the (coarse--grained) density and velocity fields describing the dynamics of colloids. Additionally, we show both with heuristic arguments, and by numerical solution, that our equations and solutions agree with existing DDFTs in the overdamped (high friction) limit. We provide numerical solutions that model the flow of hard spheres, in both unbounded and confined domains, and compare to previously--derived DDFTs with and without the background flow.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Density Functional Theory with Inertia and Background Flow
Mills-Williams, Rory D.
Goddard, Benjamin D.
Archer, Andrew J.
Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
82-10, 82C05, 35R09
We present dynamic density functional theory (DDFT) incorporating general inhomogeneous, incompressible, time dependent background flows and inertia, describing externally driven passive colloidal systems out of equilibrium. We start by considering the underlying nonequilibrium Langevin dynamics, including the effect of the local velocity of the surrounding liquid bath, to obtain the nonlinear, nonlocal partial differential equations governing the evolution of the (coarse--grained) density and velocity fields describing the dynamics of colloids. Additionally, we show both with heuristic arguments, and by numerical solution, that our equations and solutions agree with existing DDFTs in the overdamped (high friction) limit. We provide numerical solutions that model the flow of hard spheres, in both unbounded and confined domains, and compare to previously--derived DDFTs with and without the background flow.
title Dynamic Density Functional Theory with Inertia and Background Flow
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
82-10, 82C05, 35R09
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12765