Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-01-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
submited to JFM
Scientific paper
Binary encounters between spherical particles in shear flow are studied for a system bounded by a single planar wall or two parallel planar walls under creeping flow conditions. We show that wall proximity gives rise to a new class of binary trajectories resulting in cross-streamline migration of the particles. The spheres on these new trajectories do not pass each other (as they would in free space) but instead they swap their cross-streamline positions. To determine the significance of the wall-induced particle migration, we have evaluated the hydrodynamic self-diffusion coefficient associated with a sequence of uncorrelated particle displacements due to binary particle encounters. The results of our calculations quantitatively agree with the experimental value obtained by \cite{Zarraga-Leighton:2002} for the self-diffusivity in a dilute suspension of spheres undergoing shear flow in a Couette device. We thus show that the wall-induced cross-streamline particle migration is the source of the anomalously large self-diffusivity revealed by their experiments.
Blawzdziewicz Jerzy
Wajnryb Eligiusz
Zurita-Gotor M.
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