Abstract
An analytical and numerical study for the creeping flow caused by a solid spherical particle with a slip-flow surface is considered in the presence of a fluid–fluid plane interface. The particle rotating about or translating along an axis perpendicular to the interface. The motion is investigated in the limit of low capillary number where in this situation the interface is of negligible deformation. Using a bipolar coordinate system, the stream functions are constructed for both fluid phases as Reynolds number tends to zero. The novelty of this work is allowing the slip on the surface of the particle. The matching boundary conditions at the plane interface and the slip boundary condition on the particle’s surface are applied to the truncated solutions to specify the unknown coefficients. A comparison is made between the results of the analytical solution and the results obtained from a boundary collocation method. The torque and drag force exerted on the particle are calculated using both techniques, which are found in perfect agreement. In addition to compression with collocation techniques, we also studied the predicted changes in the drag force and torque due to the presence of the plane interface and the slippage at the surface of the particle. Our results of the drag force and torque are compared with the available data in the literature for the special cases. The work is motivated by its possible application as an analytical tool in the study of locomotion of microswimmers near an interface such as synthetic swimmers and microorganisms.
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Abbreviations
- a :
-
Particle radius (m)
- \(A_{n} ,B_{n} ,C_{n} \) :
- \(a_{n} ,b_{n} ,c_{n} ,d_{n} ,a'_{n} ,c'_{n} \) :
- \(C_{1n} \left( \zeta \right) \) :
-
Function of \(\zeta \)defined by Eq. (A.5)
- \(C_{m} \) :
-
Dimensionless coefficient accounting for the frictional slip
- c :
-
Geometrical constant \(\left( =a\, \sinh \alpha \right) \), \(\left( m\right) \)
- D :
-
\(=d/d\eta \)
- \(\vec {e}_{\rho } ,\vec {e}_{\phi } ,\vec {e}_{z} \) :
-
Unit vectors in cylindrical system
- \(\vec {e}_{\eta } ,\vec {e}_{\xi } ,\vec {e}_{\phi }\) :
-
Unit vectors in bipolar system
- F :
-
Hydrodynamic drag force on the particle, \(\left( N\right) \)
- \(f_{n} \) :
-
Function defined by Eq. (A.4)
- \(G_{n} \) :
-
Gegenbauer polynomial of order n and degree \(-1/2\)
- \(h_{\eta } ,h_{\xi } ,h_{\phi } \) :
-
Metrical coefficients of the bipolar coordinates defined by Eq.(3.3), \(\left( m\right) \)
- \(h_{in} ,\, \, i=1,...,4\) :
-
Functions listed in Appendix (A.6 - A.9)
- I :
-
Unit dyadic
- \(K_{n}\) :
-
Knudsen number \(\left( =\ell /a\right) \)
- L :
-
Spacing parameter \(\left( =a/z_{0} \right) \)
- \(L_{-1} \) :
-
Stokes operator, \(\left( m^{-2} \right) \)
- M :
-
Number of equations in the band matrix
- N :
-
Number of collocation points on particle surface
- \(\vec {n}\) :
-
Outward normal unit vector
- \(n_{i} ,\, \,~~~ i=1,2,...,5\) :
-
Half integer numbers
- \(p,p'\) :
-
Pressure field below and above the interface, respectively, \(\left( N\, m^{-2} \right) \)
- \(P_{n}^{1} \) :
-
Associated Legendre function of the first kind
- \(\vec {q},\vec {q'}\) :
-
Fluid velocity field below and above the interface, respectively, \(\left( m\, s^{-1} \right) \)
- \(q_{\eta } ,q_{\xi } ,q_{\phi } \) :
-
Components of \(\vec {q}\) in spherical bipolar coordinates , \(\left( m\, s^{-1} \right) \)
- \(q'_{\eta } ,q'_{\xi } ,q'_{\phi } \) :
-
Components of \(\vec {q}'\) in spherical bipolar coordinates, \(\left( m\, s^{-1} \right) \)
- T :
-
Hydrodynamic torque acting on particle, \(\left( N\, m\right) \)
- U :
-
Migration velocity of the particle, \(\left( m\, s^{-1} \right) \)
- \(U_{n} ,V_{n} \) :
- w :
-
\(=\cosh \alpha -\zeta \)
- \(\psi ,\psi '\) :
-
Stokes stream function below and above the interface, respectively, \(\left( m^{3} s^{-1} \right) \)
- \(\alpha _{n} ,\beta _{n} ,\gamma _{n} \) :
-
coefficients defined by Eqs. (A.1–A.3)
- \(\beta \) :
-
reciprocal of the slip coefficient at the particle surface, \(\left( kg\, \, m^{-2} \, \, s^{-1} \right) \)
- \(\beta ^{*} =a\beta /\mu _{1} \) :
-
slip parameter
- \(\lambda =\mu _{2} /\mu _{1} \) :
-
viscosity ratio parameter
- \(\ell \) :
-
mean free path of fluid molecule, \(\left( m\right) \)
- \(\mu _{1} ,\mu _{2} \) :
-
dynamic viscosity below and above the interface, respectively, \(\left( kg\, \, m^{-1} \, \, s^{-1} \right) \)
- \(\prod _{\eta \phi } ,\prod '_{\eta \phi }\) :
-
tangential stresses defined by Eqs. (3.16) and (3.17), \(\left( N\, m^{-2} \right) \)
- \(\prod _{\eta \xi } ,\prod '_{\eta \xi }\) :
-
tangential stresses defined by Eqs. (4.6) and (4.7), \(\left( N\, m^{-2} \right) \)
- \(\Omega \) :
-
angular velocity of the particle, \(\left( s^{-1} \right) \)
- \(\left( \rho ,\phi ,z\right) \) :
-
cylindrical coordinates
- \(\left( \eta ,\xi ,\phi \right) \) :
-
spherical bipolar coordinates
- \(\alpha \) :
-
\(=\sinh ^{-1} \sqrt{L^{-2} -1}\)
- \(\zeta \) :
-
\(=\cos \xi \)
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where \(g_{n} \) which appears in \(h_{3n} \) and \(h_{4n} \) is given by
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Sherief, H.H., Faltas, M.S. & Ragab, K.E. Exact solution for the slow motion of a spherical particle in the presence of an interface with slip regime. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 136, 466 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01428-6
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