Biased Brownian motion in extremely corrugated tubes

DOI10.1063/1.3658621zbMATH Open1317.60107arXiv1108.4374OpenAlexW1966445867WikidataQ51455529 ScholiaQ51455529MaRDI QIDQ5264618FDOQ5264618

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Publication date: 27 July 2015

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Biased Brownian motion of point-size particles in a three-dimensional tube with smoothly varying cross-section is investigated. In the fashion of our recent work [Martens et al., PRE 83,051135] we employ an asymptotic analysis to the stationary probability density in a geometric parameter of the tube geometry. We demonstrate that the leading order term is equivalent to the Fick-Jacobs approximation. Expression for the higher order corrections to the probability density are derived. Using this expansion orders we obtain that in the diffusion dominated regime the average particle current equals the zeroth-order Fick-Jacobs result corrected by a factor including the corrugation of the tube geometry. In particular we demonstrate that this estimate is more accurate for extreme corrugated geometries compared to the common applied method using the spatially dependent diffusion coefficient D(x,f). The analytic findings are corroborated with the finite element calculation of a sinusoidal-shaped tube.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4374

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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