arXiv · cond-mat/0111465
Kinetics of dilute polymers with the viscous memory
Abstract
The Zimm equation for the position vector of a polymer segment is generalized taking into account the effect of viscous memory. The Oseen tensor is built on the basis of the nonstationary Navier-Stokes equation. After the preliminary averaging of the tensor a non-Markovian equation for the time correlation function of the Fourier components of the segment position is derived. The viscous memory essentially affects the long-time asymptote of the correlation function of the Fourier amplitudes of the chain fragments: the time behavior is of a fractional power character instead of the traditional exponential. The relaxation time and the diffusion coefficient of the macromolecule as a whole are the same as in the Zimm model.
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A. V. Zatovsky, V. Lisy. 2001-11-24. Kinetics of dilute polymers with the viscous memory. https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111465
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