Cyron Christian J, Wall Wolfgang A
Institute for Computational Mechanics, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Dec;82(6 Pt 2):066705. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.066705. Epub 2010 Dec 23.
In the last decades simulation tools for Brownian dynamics of polymers have attracted more and more interest. Here we present a mathematically consistent finite element approach to the simulation of Brownian polymer dynamics. The viscous damping forces are accounted for by an anisotropic friction model. By comparison with theoretical predictions and experimental data we demonstrate the reliability and efficiency of this method.