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Hydrodynamic Equations for a system with translational and rotational dynamics

Statistical Mechanics 2025-01-20 v1

Abstract

We obtain the equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics for many-particle systems whose microscopic units have both translational and rotational motion. The orientational dynamics of each element are studied in terms of the rotational Brownian motion of a corresponding fixed-length director u{\bf u}. The time evolution of a set of collective densities {ψ^}\{\hat{\psi}\} is obtained as an exact representation of the corresponding microscopic dynamics. For the Smoluchowski dynamics, noise in the Langevin equation for the director u{\bf u} is multiplicative. We obtain that the equation of motion for the collective number-density has two different forms, respectively, for the I\"{t}o and Stratonvich interpretation of the multiplicative noise in the u{\bf u}-equation. Without the u{\bf u} variable, both reduce to the Standard Dean-Kawasaki form. Next, we average the microscopic equations for the collective densities {ψ^}\{\hat{\psi}\} (which are, at this stage, a collection of Dirac delta functions) over phase space variables and obtain a corresponding set of stochastic partial differential equations for the coarse-grained densities {ψ}\{\psi\} with smooth spatial and temporal dependence. The coarse-grained equations of motion for the collective densities {ψ}\{\psi\} constitute the fluctuating non-linear hydrodynamics for the fluid with both rotational and translational dynamics. From the stationary solution of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, we obtain a free energy functional F[ψ]{\cal F}[\psi] and demonstrate the relation between the F[ψ]{\cal F}[\psi]s for different levels of the FNH descriptions with its corresponding set of {ψ}\{\psi\}.

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@article{arxiv.2501.09807,
  title  = {Hydrodynamic Equations for a system with translational and rotational dynamics},
  author = {Akira Yoshimori and Shankar P. Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09807},
  year   = {2025}
}

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45 pages

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