Effective pseudo-potentials of hydrodynamic origin

Details Effective pseudo-potentials of hydrodynamic origin Effective pseudo-potentials of hydrodynamic origin

2001-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102193v1

J. Fluid Mech. (2001), vol. 443, pp. 403{412.

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 3 figures, submitted to J. Fluid Mech

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It is shown that low Reynolds number fluid flows can cause suspended particles to respond as though they were in an equilibrium system with an effective potential. This general result follows naturally from the fact that different methods of moving particles in viscous fluids give rise to very different long-range flows. Two examples are discussed: electrophoretic `levitation' of a heavy charged sphere, for which a hydrodynamic `pseudo-potential' can be written in closed form, and quasi-two dimensional crystals of like-charged colloidal spheres which form near charged walls, whose apparent attraction arises not from a force but from persistent fluid flows.

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