Published February 1976
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Brownian motion in thin sheets of viscous fluid
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- Saffman, P. G.
Abstract
The drag on a cylindrical particle moving in a thin sheet of viscous fluid is calculated. It is supposed that the sheet is embedded in fluid of much lower viscosity. A finite steady drag is obtained, which depends logarithmically on the ratio of the viscosities. The Einstein relation is used to determine the diffusion coefficient for Brownian motion of the particle, with application to the movement of molecules in biological membranes. In addition, the Brownian motion is calculated using the Langevin equation, and a logarithmically time-dependent diffusivity is obtained for the case when the embedding fluid has zero viscosity.
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© 1976 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. (Received 2 September 1976) This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant ENG 74-00124.Attached Files
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