Unsteady Stokes flow near boundaries: the point-particle approximation and the method of reflections

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.87zbMATH Open1419.76140arXiv1707.03936OpenAlexW3102458454WikidataQ130167228 ScholiaQ130167228MaRDI QIDQ5227043FDOQ5227043

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Publication date: 5 August 2019

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

Abstract: Problems of particle dynamics involving unsteady Stokes flows in confined geometries are typically harder to solve than their steady counterparts. Approximation techniques are often the only resort. Felderhof (see e.g. 2005, 2009b) has developed a point-particle approximation framework to solve such problems, especially in the context of Brownian motion. Despite excellent agreement with past experiments, this framework has an inconsistency which we address in this work. Upon implementing our modifications, the framework passes consistency checks that it previously failed. Further, it is not obvious that such an approximation should work for short time-scale motion. We investigate its validity by deriving it from a general formalism based on integral equations through a series of systematic approximations. We also compare results from the point-particle framework against a calculation performed using the method of reflections, for the specific case of a sphere near a full-slip plane boundary. We find from our analysis that the reasons for the success of the point-particle approximation are subtle and have to do with the nature of the unsteady Oseen tensor. Finally, we provide numerical predictions for Brownian motion near a full-slip and a no-slip plane wall based on the point-particle approximation as used by Felderhof, our modified point-particle approximation, and the method of reflections. We show that our modifications to Felderhof's framework would become significant for systems of metallic nanoparticles in liquids.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03936

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zbMATH Keywords

low-Reynolds-number flowsmicro-/nano-fluid dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

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