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

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)

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 (l a m b d a^{2})

approximation of the exact fluid-particle system, with

l a m b d a

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_{e f f} (x) = m u + f r a c 52 m u h o (x) l a m b d a + m u_{2} (x) l a m b d a^{2}

. Under a separation assumption on the particles, we proved in [6] that if a

o (l a m b d a)^{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 (l a m b d 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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