Relaxation of micellar systems can be described with the help of the Becker- D¨oring kinetic difference equations for aggregate concentrations. Passing in these equations to continual description, when the aggregation number is considered as continuous variable and the concentration difference is replaced by the concentration differential, allows one to find analytically the eigenvalues (to whom the inverse times of micellar relaxation are related) and eigenfunctions (or the modes of fast relaxation) of the linearized differential operator of the kinetic equation corresponding to the Fokker-Planck approximation. At this the spectrum of eigenvalues appears to be degenerated at some surfactant concentrations. However, as has been recently found by us, there is no such a degeneracy at numerical determination of the eigenvalues of the matrix of coefficients for the linearized difference Becker-D¨oring equations. It is shown in this work in the frameworks of the perturbation theory, that taking into account the co
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)551–562
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume479
StatePublished - 2017

    Research areas

  • Micelles, Kinetic equation, Fast relaxation, Perturbation theory

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