Abstract
The lateral migration of a neutrally buoyant rigid sphere suspended in a second-order fluid is studied theoretically for unidirectional two-dimensional flows. The results demonstrate the existence of migration induced by normal stresses whenever there is a lateral variation of the shear rate in the undisturbed flow. The migration occurs in the direction of decreasing absolute shear rate, which is towards the centre-line for a plane Poiseuille flow and towards the outer cylinder wall for Couette flow. The direction of migration agrees with existing experimental data for a viscoelastic suspending fluid, and qualitative agreement is found between the theoretically predicted and experimentally measured sphere trajectories.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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