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Article
Diffusive Transport Enhanced by Thermal Velocity Fluctuations
Physical Review Letters
(2011)
Abstract
We study the contribution of advection by thermal velocity fluctuations to the effective diffusion coefficient in a mixture of two identical fluids. We find good agreement between a simple fluctuating hydrodynamics theory and particle and finite-volume simulations. The enhancement of the diffusive transport depends on the system size L and grows as ln(L/L0) in quasi-two-dimensional systems, while in three dimensions it scales as L0-1-L-1, where L0 is a reference length. Our results demonstrate that fluctuations play an important role in the hydrodynamics of small-scale systems.
Keywords
- transport,
- fluctuations
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2011 American Physical Society. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.204501
Citation Information
Alejandro Garcia, Aleksandar Donev, Anton de la Fuente and John B Bell. "Diffusive Transport Enhanced by Thermal Velocity Fluctuations" Physical Review Letters Vol. 106 (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alejandro_garcia1/6/