Diffusion in a tube of varying cross section: Numerical study of reduction to effective one-dimensional description
Diffusion in a tube of varying cross section: Numerical study of reduction to effective one-dimensional description
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DOI:
10.1063/1.2719193
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发表时间:
2007-04-07
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4.4
通讯作者:
Bezrukov, S. M.
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作者:
Berezhkovskii, A. M.;Pustovoit, M. A.;Bezrukov, S. M.
Brownian dynamics simulations of the particle diffusing in a long conical tube (the length of the tube is much greater than its smallest radius) are used to study reduction of the three-dimensional diffusion in tubes of varying cross section to an effective one-dimensional description. The authors find that the one-dimensional description in the form of the Fick-Jacobs equation with a position-dependent diffusion coefficient, D(x), suggested by Zwanzig [J. Phys. Chem. 96, 3926 (1992)], with D(x) given by the Reguera-Rubi formula [Phys. Rev. E 64, 061106 (2001)], D(x)=D/root 1+R-'(x)(2), where D is the particle diffusion coefficient in the absence of constraints, and R(x) is the tube radius at x, is valid when vertical bar R-'(x)vertical bar