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Title: Self-consistent description of electrokinetic phenomena in particle-based simulations

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4923342· OSTI ID:1352852
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Medellin (Colombia); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  2. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

A new computational method is presented for study suspensions of charged particles undergoing fluctuating hydrodynamic and electrostatic interactions. The proposed model is appropriate for polymers, proteins, and porous particles embedded in a continuum electrolyte. A self-consistent Langevin description of the particles is adopted in which hydrodynamic and electrostatic interactions are included through a Green's function formalism. An Ewald-like split is adopted in order to satisfy arbitrary boundary conditions for the Stokeslet and Poisson Green functions, thereby providing a formalism that is applicable to any geometry and that can be extended to deformable objects. The convection-diffusion equation for the continuum ions is solved simultaneously considering Nernst-Planck diffusion. In conclusion, the method can be applied to systems at equilibrium and far from equilibrium. Its applicability is demonstrated in the context of electrokinetic motion, where it is shown that the ionic clouds associated with individual particles can be severely altered by the flow and concentration, leading to intriguing cooperative effects.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Institutes of Health (NIH); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; HG000225
OSTI ID:
1352852
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1228653
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 143, Issue 1; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 6 works
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