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@ARTICLE{Ahuja:842363,
author = {Ahuja, V. R. and van der Gucht, J. and Briels, Willem},
title = {{H}ydrodynamically {C}oupled {B}rownian {D}ynamics: {A}
coarse-grain particle-based {B}rownian dynamics technique
with hydrodynamic interactions for modeling self-developing
flow of polymer solutions},
journal = {The journal of chemical physics},
volume = {148},
number = {3},
issn = {1089-7690},
address = {Melville, NY},
publisher = {American Institute of Physics},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-00604},
pages = {034902 -},
year = {2018},
abstract = {We present a novel coarse-grain particle-based simulation
technique for modeling self-developing flow of dilute and
semi-dilute polymer solutions. The central idea in this
paper is the two-way coupling between a mesoscopic polymer
model and a phenomenological fluid model. As our polymer
model, we choose Responsive Particle Dynamics (RaPiD), a
Brownian dynamics method, which formulates the so-called
“conservative” and “transient” pair-potentials
through which the polymers interact besides experiencing
random forces in accordance with the fluctuation dissipation
theorem. In addition to these interactions, our polymer
blobs are also influenced by the background solvent velocity
field, which we calculate by solving the Navier-Stokes
equation discretized on a moving grid of fluid blobs using
the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. While
the polymers experience this frictional force opposing their
motion relative to the background flow field, our fluid
blobs also in turn are influenced by the motion of the
polymers through an interaction term. This makes our
technique a two-way coupling algorithm. We have constructed
this interaction term in such a way that momentum is
conserved locally, thereby preserving long range
hydrodynamics. Furthermore, we have derived pairwise
fluctuation terms for the velocities of the fluid blobs
using the Fokker-Planck equation, which have been
alternatively derived using the General Equation for the
Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling (GENERIC)
approach in Smoothed Dissipative Particle Dynamics (SDPD)
literature. These velocity fluctuations for the fluid may be
incorporated into the velocity updates for our fluid blobs
to obtain a thermodynamically consistent distribution of
velocities. In cases where these fluctuations are
insignificant, however, these additional terms may well be
dropped out as they are in a standard SPH simulation. We
have applied our technique to study the rheology of two
different concentrations of our model linear polymer
solutions. The results show that the polymers and the fluid
are coupled very well with each other, showing no lag
between their velocities. Furthermore, our results show
non-Newtonian shear thinning and the characteristic
flattening of the Poiseuille flow profile typically observed
for polymer solutions.},
cin = {ICS-3},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-3-20110106},
pnm = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000423029200025},
doi = {10.1063/1.5006627},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/842363},
}