Hydrodynamic interactions suppress deformation of suspension drops in Poiseuille flow

Hydrodynamic interactions suppress deformation of suspension drops in Poiseuille flow.

Evolution of a suspension drop entrained by Poiseuille flow is studied numerically at a low Reynolds number. A suspension drop is modeled by a cloud of many nontouching particles, initially randomly distributed inside a spherical volume of a viscous fluid which is identical to the host fluid outside the drop. Evolution of particle positions and velocities is evaluated by the accurate multipole ...

Hydrodynamic interactions of spherical particles in Poiseuille flow between two parallel walls

We study hydrodynamic interactions of spherical particles in incident Poiseuille flow in a channel with infinite planar walls. The particles are suspended in a Newtonian fluid, and creeping-flow conditions are assumed. Numerical results, obtained using our highly accurate Cartesian-representation algorithm Physica A 356, 294 2005 are presented for a single sphere, two spheres, and arrays of man...

Film flow of a suspension of liquid drops

The film flow of a two-dimensional suspension of neutrally buoyant liquid drops down an inclined plane wall is investigated by numerical simulation in the limit of vanishing Reynolds numbers. The results show that well-separated and solitary drops migrate toward an equilibrium position located between the free surface and the wall, for a broad range of the fluid physical properties and flow con...

Hydrodynamic stability of a suspension in cylindrical Couette flow

A linear stability analysis was carried out for a dilute suspension of rigid spherical particles in cylindrical Couette flow. The perturbation equations for both the continuous fluid phase and the discontinuous particle phase were decomposed into normal modes resulting in an eigenvalue problem that was solved numerically. At a given radius ratio, the theoretical critical Taylor number at which ...

Pairwise hydrodynamic interactions and diffusion in a vesicle suspension