The boundary integral formulation of Stokes flows includes slender-body theory

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.483zbMATH Open1415.76141arXiv1806.04192OpenAlexW2807734250WikidataQ115187234 ScholiaQ115187234MaRDI QIDQ4583034FDOQ4583034

Authors: Lyndon Koens, Eric Lauga 

Publication date: 27 August 2018

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The incompressible Stokes equations can classically be recast in a boundary integral (BI) representation, which provides a general method to solve low-Reynolds number problems analytically and computationally. Alternatively, one can solve the Stokes equations by using an appropriate distribution of flow singularities of the right strength within the boundary, a method particularly useful to describe the dynamics of long slender objects for which the numerical implementation of the BI representation becomes cumbersome. While the BI approach is a mathematical consequence of the Stokes equations, the singularity method involves making judicious guesses that can only be justified a posteriori. In this paper we use matched asymptotic expansions to derive an algebraically accurate slender-body theory directly from the BI representation able to handle arbitrary surface velocities and surface tractions. This expansion procedure leads to sets of uncoupled linear equations and to a single one-dimensional integral equation identical to that derived by Keller and Rubinow (1976) and Johnson (1979) using the singularity method. Hence we show that it is a mathematical consequence of the BI approach that the leading-order flow around a slender body can be represented using a distribution of singularities along its centreline. Furthermore when derived from either the single-layer or double-layer modified BI representation, general slender solutions are only possible in certain types of flow, in accordance with the limitations of these representations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04192

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zbMATH Keywords

slender-body theoryboundary integral methodslow-Reynolds-number flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

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