On the correction to Einstein's formula for the effective viscosity

DOI10.4171/AIHPC/3MaRDI QIDQ6338564arXivFDO

Authors David Gérard-Varet, Amina Mecherbet

Publication date 12 April 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/AIHPC/3

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Homogenization applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M50) Suspensions (76T20) PDEs in connection with mechanics of particles and systems of particles (35Q70)

arXiv classification

math.AP

Abstract: This paper is a follow-up of article [6], on the derivation of accurate effective models for viscous dilute suspensions. The goal is to identify an effective Stokes equation providing a $o(lambd{a}^2)$ approximation of the exact fluid-particle system, with $lambda$ the solid volume fraction of the particles. This means that we look for an improvement of Einstein's formula for the effective viscosity in the form $m{u}_{eff}(x)=mu+frac52muho(x)lambda+m{u}_2(x)lambd{a}^2$. Under a separation assumption on the particles, we proved in [6] that if a $o(lambda{)}^2$ Stokes effective approximation exists, the correction $m{u}_2$ is necessarily given by a mean field limit, that can then be studied and computed under further assumptions on the particle configurations. Roughly, we go here from the conditional result of [6] to an unconditional result: we show that such a $o(lambd{a}^2)$ Stokes approximation indeed exists, as soon as the mean field limit exists. This includes the case of periodic and random stationary particle configurations.

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