Compressibility effects in the hydrodynamic theory of Brownian motion
- 13 May 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 69 (1) , 21-25
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112075001280
Abstract
The velocity correlation function of a Brownian particle in a viscous compressible fluid is studied in the limit of very small compressibility. The main effect of compressibility is an initial rapid change of the particle mass from a real inertial mass to a virtual mass.Keywords
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