Simulation methods for particulate flows and concentrated suspensions

M Maxey - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Numerical simulations are extensively used to investigate the motion of suspended particles
in a fluid and their influence on the dynamics of the overall flow. Contexts range from the …

Brownian motion of an ellipsoid

Y Han, AM Alsayed, M Nobili, J Zhang, TC Lubensky… - Science, 2006 - science.org
We studied the Brownian motion of isolated ellipsoidal particles in water confined to two
dimensions and elucidated the effects of coupling between rotational and translational …

Hydrodynamic interaction of microswimmers near a wall

GJ Li, AM Ardekani - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
The hydrodynamics of an archetypal low-Reynolds number swimmer, called “squirmer,”
near a wall has been numerically studied. For a single squirmer, depending on the …

Generalization of the Rotne–Prager–Yamakawa mobility and shear disturbance tensors

E Wajnryb, KA Mizerski, PJ Zuk… - Journal of Fluid …, 2013 - cambridge.org
The Rotne–Prager–Yamakawa approximation is one of the most commonly used methods of
including hydrodynamic interactions in modelling of colloidal suspensions and polymer …

Hydrodynamics of suspensions of passive and active rigid particles: a rigid multiblob approach

F Balboa Usabiaga, B Kallemov, B Delmotte… - … in Applied Mathematics …, 2017 - msp.org
We develop a rigid multiblob method for numerically solving the mobility problem for
suspensions of passive and active rigid particles of complex shape in Stokes flow in …

An immersed boundary method for rigid bodies

B Kallemov, A Bhalla, B Griffith, A Donev - Communications in Applied …, 2016 - msp.org
We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving
rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes …

Quasi-two-dimensional diffusion of single ellipsoids: Aspect ratio and confinement effects

Y Han, A Alsayed, M Nobili, AG Yodh - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2009 - APS
We report on video-microscopy measurements of the translational and rotational Brownian
motions of isolated ellipsoidal particles in quasi-two-dimensional sample cells of increasing …

Hydrodynamic interaction in confined geometries

H Diamant - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2009 - jstage.jst.go.jp
accepted January 16, 2009; published April 10, 2009) This article gives an overview of
recent theoretical and experimental findings concerning the hydrodynamic interaction …

Swapping trajectories: a new wall-induced cross-streamline particle migration mechanism in a dilute suspension of spheres

M Zurita-Gotor, J Bławzdziewicz… - Journal of Fluid …, 2007 - cambridge.org
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 …

State diagram of a three-sphere microswimmer in a channel

A Daddi-Moussa-Ider, M Lisicki… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Geometric confinements are frequently encountered in soft matter systems and in particular
significantly alter the dynamics of swimming microorganisms in viscous media. Surface …