Numerical study of polymer tumbling in linear shear flows

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2005.07.016MaRDI QIDQ2573606zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Puliafito, Konstantin S. Turitsyn

Publication date 22 November 2005

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0509002

zbMATH Keywords

Fluid dynamicsSingle polymer dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35)

Abstract: We investigate numerically the dynamics of a single polymer in a linear shear flow. The effects of thermal fluctuations and randomly fluctuating velocity gradients are both analyzed. Angular, elongation and tumbling time statistics are measured numerically. We perform analytical calculations and numerical simulations for a linear single-dumbbell polymer model comparing the results with previous theoretical and experimental studies. For thermally driven polymers the balance between relaxation and thermal fluctuations plays a fundamental role, whereas for random velocity gradients the ratio between the intensity of the random part and the mean shear is the most relevant quantity. In the low-noise limit, many universal aspects of the motion of a polymer in a shear flow can be understood in this simplified framework.

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