Singular behaviour of time-averaged stress fluctuations on surfaces
arXiv:1809.09410 · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/aaf31c
Abstract
We provide a method for calculating time-averaged stress fluctuations on surfaces in a viscous incompressible fluid at equilibrium. We assume that (i) the time-averaged fluctuating stress is balanced in equilibrium at each position and that (ii) the time-averaged fluctuating stress obeys a Gaussian distribution on the restricted configuration space given by (i). Using these assumptions with the Green-Kubo formula for the viscosity, we can derive the large deviation function of the time-averaged fluctuating stress. Then, using the saddle-point method for the large deviation function, we obtain the time-averaged surface stress fluctuations. As an example, for a fluid between two parallel plates, we study the time-averaged shear/normal stress fluctuations per unit area on the top plate at equilibrium. We show that the surface shear/normal stress fluctuations are inversely proportional to the distance between the plates.
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