McKean-Vlasov diffusion and the well-posedness of the Hookean bead-spring-chain model for dilute polymeric fluids: small-mass limit and equilibration in momentum space

Endre Süli, Ghozlane Yahiaoui

We reformulate a general class of classical bead-spring-chain models for dilute polymeric fluids, with Hookean spring potentials, as McKean-Vlasov diffusion. This results in a coup…