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The Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the distribution function of a massive Brownian hard sphere suspended in a fluid of much lighter spheres is derived from the exact hierarchy of kinetic equations for the total system via a multiple-time-scale analysis akin to a uniform expansion in powers of the square root of the mass ratio. The derivation leads to an exact expression for the friction coefficient which naturally splits into an Enskog contribution and a dynamical correction. The latter, which accounts for correlated collisions events, reduces to the integral of a time-displaced correlation function of dynamical variables linked to the collisional transfer of momentum between the infinitively heavy (i.e., immobile) Brownian sphere and the fluid particles.
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Bocquet, L., Piasecki, J. & Hansen, JP. On the Brownian motion of a massive sphere suspended in a hard-sphere fluid. I. Multiple-time-scale analysis and microscopic expression for the friction coefficient. J Stat Phys 76, 505–526 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02188673
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