Coarse Graining Nonisothermal Microswimmer Suspensions
arXiv:2102.09832 · doi:10.3389/fphy.2021.655838
Abstract
We investigate coarse-grained models of suspended self-thermophoretic microswimmers. Upon heating, the Janus spheres, with hemispheres made of different materials, induce a heterogeneous local solvent temperature that causes the self-phoretic particle propulsion. Starting from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we verify the coarse-grained description of the fluid in terms of a local molecular temperature field, and its role for the particle's thermophoretic self-propulsion and hot Brownian motion. The latter is governed by effective nonequilibrium temperatures, which are measured from simulations by confining the particle position and orientation. They are theoretically shown to remain relevant for any further spatial coarse-graining towards a hydrodynamic description of the entire suspension as a homogeneous complex fluid.
arXiv comment20 pages, 5 figures
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