The influence of Einstein's effective viscosity on sedimentation at very small particle volume fraction

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2021.02.001zbMATH Open1489.35202arXiv2008.04813OpenAlexW3128757062MaRDI QIDQ2235196FDOQ2235196

Authors: Richard M. Höfer, Richard Schubert 

Publication date: 20 October 2021

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the sedimentation of identical inertialess spherical particles in a Stokes fluid in the limit of many small particles. It is known that the presence of the particles leads to an increase of the effective viscosity of the suspension. By Einstein's formula this effect is of the order of the particle volume fraction $phi$. The disturbance of the fluid flow responsible for this increase of viscosity is very singular (like $|x{|}^{-2}$). Nevertheless, for well-prepared initial configurations and $phio0$, we show that the microscopic dynamics is approximated to order $ph{i}^2|logphi|$ by a macroscopic coupled transport-Stokes system with an effective viscosity according to Einstein's formula. We provide quantitative estimates both for convergence of the densities in the $p$-Wasserstein distance for all $p$ and for the fluid velocity in Lebesgue spaces in terms of the $p$-Wasserstein distance of the initial data. Our proof is based on approximations through the method of reflections and on a generalization of a classical result on convergence to mean-field limits in the infinite Wasserstein metric by Hauray.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04813

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zbMATH Keywords

mean-field limiteffective viscositysedimentationmethod of reflectionsEinstein's formulaStokes-transport equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Inequalities involving other types of functions (26D07) Suspensions (76T20)

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