Collective dynamics of interacting particles in unsteady flows

DOI10.1137/130911536MaRDI QIDQ2876667zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maryam Abedi, Mir Abbas Jalali

Publication date 19 August 2014

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0558

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationinteracting particlesnumerical methodsunsteady transient fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Probabilistic methods, particle methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M75) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We use the Fokker-Planck equation and its moment equations to study the collective behavior of interacting particles in unsteady one-dimensional flows. Particles interact according to a long-range attractive and a short-range repulsive potential field known as Morse potential. We assume Stokesian drag force between particles and their carrier fluid, and find analytic single-peaked traveling solutions for the spatial density of particles in the catastrophic phase. In steady flow conditions the streaming velocity of particles is identical to their carrier fluid, but we show that particle streaming is asynchronous with an unsteady carrier fluid. Using linear perturbation analysis, the stability of traveling solutions is investigated in unsteady conditions. It is shown that the resulting dispersion relation is an integral equation of the Fredholm type, and yields two general families of stable modes: singular modes whose eigenvalues form a continuous spectrum, and a finite number of discrete global modes. Depending on the value of drag coefficient, stable modes can be over-damped, critically damped, or decaying oscillatory waves. The results of linear perturbation analysis are confirmed through the numerical solution of the fully nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation.

Review text

The paper investigates the collective motion of interacting particles in one-dimensional flows in the presence of an unsteady transient fluid. Of critical interest to the article is to understand how properties of the unsteady carrier fluid build upon the particle-particle interactions to develop spatial patterns. In addition, the paper addresses the stability of such patterns with respect to changes in the density and streaming velocity of the fluid, as well as to variations in the drag coefficient. These results constitute perhaps the main novelty of the paper.NEWLINENEWLINETo investigate the dynamics of particles in one-dimensional flows, the authors recur to the Morse potential theory. The Fokker-Planck equation associated with the particles' motion is used to study the effects of the unsteady motion of the carrier fluid on the formation of patterns in the spatial distribution of particles. A series of numerical experiments closes the paper; these validate its analytical findings.

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