On the motion of two microspheres in a Stokes flow driven by an external oscillator field

DOI10.1155/2021/9211272MaRDI QIDQ2068282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mohammed M. Al-Hatmi, Anton Purnama

Publication date 19 January 2022

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9211272

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic interactionsoscillatory external field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Suspensions (76T20) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

Review text

Summary: Hydrodynamic interactions of a two-solid microspheres system in a viscous incompressible fluid at low Reynolds number is investigated analytically. One of the spheres is conducting and assumed to be actively in motion under the action of an external oscillator field, and as the result, the other nonconducting sphere moves due to the induced flow oscillation of the surrounding fluid. The fluid flow past the spheres is described by the Stokes equation and the governing equation in the vector form for the two-sphere system is solved asymptotically using the two-timing method. For illustrations, applying a simple oscillatory external field, a systematic description of the average velocity of each sphere is formulated. The trajectory of the sphere was found to be inversely proportional to the frequency of the external field. The results demonstrated that no collisions occur between the spheres as the system moves in a circular motion with a fixed separation distance.

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