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Universal Particle Kinetic Distribution in Crowded Environments

Soft Condensed Matter 2024-06-19 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study many-particle transport in heterogeneous, crowded environments at different particle P\'{e}clet numbers (PePe^*). We demonstrate that a modified Nakagami-mm function describes particle velocity probability distributions when particle deposition occurs. We assess the universality of said function through comparison against new Lagrangian simulations of various particle types as well as experimental data from the literature. We construe the function's physical meaning as its ability to explain particle deposition in terms of PePe^* and the competition between distributions of energy barriers for particle release and particles' diffusive energy.

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@article{arxiv.2006.00360,
  title  = {Universal Particle Kinetic Distribution in Crowded Environments},
  author = {Dian Fan and Ronny Pini and Alberto Striolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.00360},
  year   = {2024}
}
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