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Polymer collapse in the presence of hydrodynamic interactions
N Kikuchi1, A Gent, J M Yeomans
1Department of Physics, Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3NP, UK. n.kikuchi1@physics.ox.ac.uk
The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|March 11, 2004
Abstract:
We investigate numerically the dynamical behaviour of a polymer chain collapsing in a dilute solution. The rate of collapse is measured with and without the presence of hydrodynamic interactions. We find that hydrodynamic interactions both accelerate polymer collapse and alter the folding pathway.