Viscous-Viscoelastic Correspondence Principle for Brownian Motion

Abstract

Motivated from the classical expressions of the mean squared displacement and the velocity autocorrelation function of Brownian particles suspended either in a Newtonian viscous fluid or trapped in a harmonic potential, we show that for all time-scales the mean squared displacement of Brownian microspheres with mass $m$ and radius $R$ suspended in any linear, isotropic viscoelastic material is identical to the creep compliance of a linear mechanical network that is a parallel connection of the linear viscoelastic material with an inerter with distributed inertance, $m_R=\frac{m}{\text{6}\pi R}$. The synthesis of this mechanical network leads to the statement of a viscous-viscoelastic correspondence principle for Brownian motion which simplifies appreciably the calculations of the mean squared displacement and the velocity autocorrelation function of Brownian particles suspended in viscoelastic materials where inertia effects are non-negligible at longer time-scales. The viscous-viscoelastic correspondence principle established in this paper by introducing the concept of the inerter is equivalent to the viscous-viscoelastic analogy adopted by Mason and Weitz (1995).

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