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Stokes flow past a particle of arbitrary shape: a numerical method of solution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

G. K. Youngren  and
A. Acrivos
G. K. Youngren
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
A. Acrivos
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Abstract

The problem of determining the slow viscous flow of an unbounded fluid past a single solid particle is formulated exactly as a system of linear integral equations of the first kind for a distribution of Stokeslets over the particle surface. The unknown density of Stokeslets is identical with the surface-stress force and can be obtained numerically by reducing the integral equations to a system of linear algebraic equations. This appears to be an efficient way of determining solutions for several external flows past a particle, since it requires that the matrix of the algebraic system be inverted only once for a given particle.

The technique was tested successfully against the analytic solutions for spheroids in uniform and simple shear flows, and was then applied to two problems involving the motion of finite circular cylinders: (i) a cylinder translating parallel to its axis, for which the local stress force distribution and the drag were determined; and (ii) the equivalent axis ratio of a freely suspended cylinder, which was calculated by determining the couple on a stationary cylinder placed symmetrically in two different simple shear flows. The numerical results were found to be consistent with the asymptotic analysis of Cox (1970, 1971) and in excellent agreement with the experiments of Anczurowski & Mason (1968), but not with those of Harris & Pittman (1975).

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , 27 May 1975 , pp. 377 - 403
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© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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