Far-field approximation for hydrodynamic interactions in parallel-wall geometry

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2005-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504697v1

J. Comput. Phys. 212, 718, (2006).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

28 pages 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.jcp.2005.07.015

A complete analysis is presented for the far-field creeping flow produced by a multipolar force distribution in a fluid confined between two parallel planar walls. We show that at distances larger than several wall separations the flow field assumes the Hele-Shaw form, i.e., it is parallel to the walls and varies quadratically in the transverse direction. The associated pressure field is a two-dimensional harmonic function that is characterized by the same multipolar number m as the original force multipole. Using these results we derive asymptotic expressions for the Green's matrix that represents Stokes flow in the wall-bounded fluid in terms of a multipolar spherical basis. This Green's matrix plays a central role in our recently proposed algorithm [Physica A xx, {\bf xxx} (2005)] for evaluating many-body hydrodynamic interactions in a suspension of spherical particles in the parallel-wall geometry. Implementation of our asymptotic expressions in this algorithm increases its efficiency substantially because the numerically expensive evaluation of the exact matrix elements is needed only for the neighboring particles. Our asymptotic analysis will also be useful in developing hydrodynamic algorithms for wall-bounded periodic systems and implementing acceleration methods by using corresponding results for the two-dimensional scalar potential.

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