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The force per unit area on the surface of a colloidal particle is a fundamental dynamical quantity in the mechanics and statistical mechanics of colloidal suspensions. Here we compute it in the limit of slow viscous flow for a suspension of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-21 Rajesh Singh , R. Adhikari

Thermally induced particle flow in a charged colloidal suspension is studied in a fluid-mechanical approach. The force density acting on the charged boundary layer is derived in detail. From Stokes' equation with no-slip boundary conditions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-31 S. Fayolle , T. Bickel , A. Würger

We show that the standard boundary integral operators, defined on the unit sphere, for the Stokes equations diagonalize on a specific set of vector spherical harmonics and provide formulas for their spectra. We also derive analytical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Eduardo Corona , Shravan Veerapaneni

The traction on the surface of a spherical active colloid in a thermally fluctuating Stokesian fluid contains passive, active, and Brownian contributions. Here we derive these three parts systematically, by "projecting out" the fluid using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-11 Rajesh Singh , R. Adhikari

A double-layer integral equation for the surface tractions on a body moving in a viscous fluid is derived which allows for the incorporation of a background flow and/or the presence of a plane wall. The Lorentz reciprocal theorem is used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-01 William H. Mitchell , Saverio E. Spagnolie

We consider the dynamics of a small spherical particle driven through an unbounded viscoelastic shear flow by an external force. We give analytical solutions to both the mobility problem (velocity of forced particle) and the resistance…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-23 J. Einarsson , B. Mehlig

The leading-order far-field scattered flow produced by a particle in a parallel-wall channel under creeping flow conditions has a form of the parabolic velocity field driven by a 2D dipolar pressure distribution. We show that in a system of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

We present a general theory for determining the force (and torque) exerted on a boundary (or body) in active matter. The theory extends the description of passive Brownian colloids to self-propelled active particles and applies for all…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-19 Wen Yan , John F. Brady

Turbulent suspensions of heavy particles in incompressible flows have gained much attention in recent years. A large amount of work focused on the impact that the inertia and the dissipative dynamics of the particles have on their dynamical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremie Bec , Massimo Cencini , Rafaela Hillerbrand , Konstantin Turitsyn

We study exact solutions for the slow viscous flow of an infinite liquid caused by two rigid spheres approaching each either along or parallel to their line of centres, valid at all separations. This goes beyond the applicable range of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-30 B. D. Goddard , R. D. Mills-Williams , J. Sun

We analyse the dynamics of a weakly elastic spherical particle translating parallel to a rigid wall in a quiescent Newtonian fluid in the Stokes limit. The particle motion is constrained parallel to the wall by applying a point force and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Shashikant Verma , Dinesh B , Navaneeth K Marath

Since its development, Stokesian Dynamics has been a leading approach for the dynamic simulation of suspensions of particles at arbitrary concentrations with full hydrodynamic interactions. Although originally developed for the simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Gwynn J. Elfring , John F. Brady

Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

We present a new derivation of a boundary integral equation (BIE) for simulating the three-dimensional dynamics of arbitrarily-shaped rigid particles of genus zero immersed in a Stokes fluid, on which are prescribed forces and torques. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Eduardo Corona , Leslie Greengard , Manas Rachh , Shravan Veerapaneni

Systems of spherical particles moving in Stokes flow are studied for a different particle internal structure and boundaries, including the Navier-slip model. It is shown that their hydrodynamic interactions are well described by treating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 Bogdan Cichocki , Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska , Eligiusz Wajnryb

The friction and diffusion coefficients of rigid spherical colloidal particles dissolved in a fluid are determined from velocity and force autocorrelation functions by mesoscale hydrodynamic simulations. Colloids with both slip and no-slip…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-10 Mario Theers , Elmar Westphal , Gerhard Gompper , Roland G. Winkler

The main motivation of this work is the quantitative prediction and description of particle manipulation (displacement across streamlines) in microfluidic flow. Much attention has been paid recently to placing particles in fast oscillatory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-24 Xuchen Liu

Solutions to the Stokes equations written in terms of a small number of hydrodynamic image singularities have been a useful tool in theoretical and numerical computations for nearly fifty years. In this article, we extend the catalogue of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-07 Alexander Chamolly , Eric Lauga

In this work, we propose and test a method for calculating Stokes drag applicable to particle-laden fluid flows where two-way momentum coupling is important. In the point-particle formulation, particle dynamics are coupled to fluid dynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Jeremy Horwitz , Ali Mani

We derive new analytical results for the hydrodynamic force exerted on a sinusoidally oscillating porous shell and a sphere of uniform density in the Stokes limit. The coupling between the spherical particle and the solvent is done using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-02 Santtu T. T. Ollila , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Colin Denniston
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