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Thus the average velocity decays exponentially to zero on a time scale detennined by the friction coefficient and the mass of the particle. This average behaviour is not very interesting, because it corresponds to tlie average of a quantity that may take values in all directions, due to the noise and friction, and so the decay of the average value tells us little about the details of the motion of the Brownian particle. A more interesting... 

Thus, the requirement that the Brownian particle becomes equilibrated with the surrounding fluid fixes the unknown value of, and provides an expression for it in tenns of the friction coefficient, the thennodynamic temperature of the fluid, and the mass of the Brownian particle. Equation (A3.1.63) is the simplest and best known example of a fluctuation-dissipation theorem, obtained by using an equilibrium condition to relate the strengtii of the fluctuations to the frictional forces acting on the particle [22]. 

This result is often called the Stokes-Einstein formula for the difflision of a Brownian particle, and the Stokes law friction coefficient 6iiq is used for... 

Consider an ensemble of Brownian particles. The approach of P2 to as 00 represents a kmd of diflfiision process in velocity space. The description of Brownian movement in these temis is known as the Fo/c/cer-PIanc/c method [16]- For the present example, this equation can be shown to be... 

In slow coagulation, particles have to diffuse over an energy barrier (see the previous section) in order to aggregate. As a result, not all Brownian particle encounters result in aggregation. This is expressed using the stability ratio IV, defined as... 

Another difference is related to the mathematical formulation. Equation (1) is deterministic and does not include explicit stochasticity. In contrast, the equations of motion for a Brownian particle include noise. Nevertheless, similar algorithms are adopted to solve the two differential equations as outlined below. The most common approach is to numerically integrate the above differential equations using small time steps and preset initial values. 

Hence, we use the trajectory that was obtained by numerical means to estimate the accuracy of the solution. Of course, the smaller the time step is, the smaller is the variance, and the probability distribution of errors becomes narrower and concentrates around zero. Note also that the Jacobian of transformation from e to must be such that log[J] is independent of X at the limit of e — 0. Similarly to the discussion on the Brownian particle we consider the Ito Calculus [10-12] by a specific choice of the discrete time... 

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Another largely unexplored area is the change of dynamics due to the influence of the surface. The dynamic behavior of a latex suspension as a model system for Brownian particles is determined by photon correlation spectroscopy in evanescent wave geometry [130] and reported to differ strongly from the bulk. Little information is available on surface motion and relaxation phenomena of polymers [10, 131]. The softening at the surface of polymer thin films is measured by a mechanical nano-indentation technique [132], where the applied force and the path during the penetration of a thin needle into the surface is carefully determined. Thus the structure, conformation and dynamics of polymer molecules at the free surface is still very much unexplored and only few specific examples have been reported in the literature. 

Macrostates are collections of microstates [9], which is to say that they are volumes of phase space on which certain phase functions have specified values. The current macrostate of the system gives its structure. Examples are the position or velocity of a Brownian particle, the moments of energy or density, their rates of change, the progress of a chemical reaction, a reaction rate, and so on. Let x label the macrostates of interest, and let x(r) be the associated phase function. The first entropy of the macrostate is... 

The Liouvillian iLo- = Ho, , where , is the Poisson bracket, describes the evolution governed by the bath Hamiltonian Hq in the held of the fixed Brownian particles. The angular brackets signify an average over a canonical equilibrium distribution of the bath particles with the two Brownian particles fixed at positions Ri and R2, ( -)0 = Z f drNdpNe liW J , where Zo is the partition function. 

If the Brownian particles were macroscopic in size, the solvent could be treated as a viscous continuum, and the particles would couple to the continuum solvent through appropriate boundary conditions. Then the two-particle friction may be calculated by solving the Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of the two fixed particles. The simplest approximation for hydrodynamic interactions is through the Oseen tensor [54],... 

F. Ould-Kaddour and D. Levesque, Determination of the friction coefficient of a Brownian particle by molecular-dynamics simulation, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 7888 (2003). 

Hydrodynamic Forces Necessary To Release Non-Brownian Particles Attached to a Surface... 

The release of non-Brownian particles (diameter s 5 pm) from surfaces has been studied. The influence of several variables such as flow rate, particle size and material, surface roughness, electrolyte composition, and particle surface charge has been considered. Experiments have been performed in a physically and chemically well-characterized system in which it has been observed that for certain particle sizes there exists a critical flow rate at which the particles are released from surfaces. This critical flow rate has been found to be a function of the particle size and composition. In addition, it has been determined that the solution pH and ionic strength has an effect on the release velocity. 

For the purpose of this study, particles are classified as Brownian or non-Brownian, where Brownian particles are defined as those for which the diameter is less than five microns and non-Brownian are those with diameter greater than five microns. The major focus of this work is on the second category. The particle release process has been studied both theoretically and experimentally, and it is found that for non-Brownian particles the surface charge and the electrolyte composition of the flowing phase are less significant factors than the hydrodynamic effects. However, Van der Waals forces are found to be important and the distortion of particles by these forces is shown to be crucial. 

In this investigation we experimentally determine the factors controlling the release of non-Brownian particles. Also, we discover the initial particle release mechanism, (i.e., rolling-vs-sliding). 

A summary of the most important experimental findings of Chamoun (H), along with a description of the experimental apparatus and procedure, is presented in this chapter. In particular, the experiments have shown which factors (such as pH, ionic strength, etc.) control the release of non-Brownian particles and also have proven that the initial particle release mechanism is rolling rather than sliding. 

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The first paper that was devoted to the escape problem in the context of the kinetics of chemical reactions and that presented approximate, but complete, analytic results was the paper by Kramers [11]. Kramers considered the mechanism of the transition process as noise-assisted reaction and used the Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density of Brownian particles to obtain several approximate expressions for the desired transition rates. The main approach of the Kramers method is the assumption that the probability current over a potential barrier is small and thus constant. This condition is valid only if a potential barrier is sufficiently high in comparison with the noise intensity. For obtaining exact timescales and probability densities, it is necessary to solve the Fokker-Planck equation, which is the main difficulty of the problem of investigating diffusion transition processes. 

Initially, an overdamped Brownian particle is located in the potential minimum, say somewhere between x and X2- Subjected to noise perturbations, the Brownian particle will, after some time, escape over the potential barrier of the height AT. It is necessary to obtain the mean decay time of metastable state [inverse of the mean decay time (escape time) is called the escape rate]. 

The Transition Probability. Suppose we have a Brownian particle located at an initial instant of time at the point xo, which corresponds to initial delta-shaped probability distribution. It is necessary to find the probability Qc,d(t,xo) = Q(t,xo) of transition of the Brownian particle from the point c 0 Q(t,xo) = W(x, t) dx + Jrf+ X W(x, t) dx. The considered transition probability Q(t,xo) is different from the well-known probability to pass an absorbing boundary. Here we suppose that c and d are arbitrary chosen points of an arbitrary potential profile (x), and boundary conditions at these points may be arbitrary W(c, t) > 0, W(d, t) > 0. 

The main distinction between the transition probability and the probability to pass the absorbing boundary is the possibility for a Brownian particle to come back in the considered interval (c, d) after crossing boundary points (see, e.g., Ref. 55). This possibility may lead to a situation where despite the fact that a Brownian particle has already crossed points c or d, at the time t > oo this particle may be located within the interval (c, d). Thus, the set of transition events may be not complete that is, at the time t > oo the probability Q(t,xo) may tend to the constant, smaller than unity lim Q(t, x0) < 1, as in the case... 

Moments of Transition Time. Consider the probability Q(t, xo) of a Brownian particle, located at the point xo within the interval (c, d), to be at the time t > 0 outside of the considered interval. We can decompose this probability to the set of moments. On the other hand, if we know all moments, we can in some cases construct a probability as the set of moments. Thus, analogically to moments of the first passage time we can introduce moments of transition time i9 (c,xo, d) taking into account that the set of transition events may be not complete, that is, lim Q(t,xo) < 1 ... 

We suppose that at initial instant t = 0 all Brownian particles are located at the pointx = xo, which corresponds to the initial condition W(x, 0) = 8(x — xo). The initial delta-shaped probability distribution spreads with time, and its later evolution strongly depends on the form of the potential profile (p(x). We shall consider the problem for the three archetypal potential profiles that are sketched in Figs. 3-5. 

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