Single polymer dynamics in elongational flow and the confluent Heun equation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/34/007zbMATH Open1108.82053arXivnlin/0609007OpenAlexW3104874920WikidataQ56991797 ScholiaQ56991797MaRDI QIDQ5489685FDOQ5489685

Authors: Dario Vincenzi, Eberhard Bodenschatz 

Publication date: 28 September 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of an isolated polymer in a stationary elongational flow. We compute the relaxation time to the steady-state configuration as a function of the Weissenberg number. A strong increase of the relaxation time is found around the coil-stretch transition, which is attributed to the large number of polymer configurations. The relaxation dynamics of the polymer is solved analytically in terms of a central two-point connection problem for the singly confluent Heun equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0609007

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zbMATH Keywords

relaxation timeWeissenberg numberdilute polymer solutionscoil-stretch transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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