Brownian and fractional polymers with self-repulsion
Brownian and fractional processes are useful computational tools for the modeling of physical phenomena. Here, modeling linear homopolymers in a solution as Brownian or fractional processes, we develop a formalism to take into account both the interactions of the polymer with the solvent as well as the effect of arbitrary polymer-polymer potentials and Gibbs factors. As an example, the average squared length is computed for a non-trivial Gaussian Gibbs factor, which is also compared with the Edwards' and step factor.
Authors
- Samuel Eleutério (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1585-1329)
- R. Vilela Mendes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4920-9214)
Institutions
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- Universidade Politécnica de Lisboa (PT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics of Fluids
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0234625
- Primary Topic
- Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia