Force-dependence of the rigid-body motion for an arbitrarily shaped particle in a forced, incompressible Stokes flow
A rigid body immersed in a fluid will generically move when the latter experiences a local force field. In the creeping flow regime, the body velocities (translational and angular) will be linear functionals of this field (``force representation''). Due to the incompressibility constraint, however, it should be possible to express them equivalently as linear functionals of the curl of the force (``curl representation''). Explicit expressions for this alternative formulation are derived, and illustrated with the example of self-chemophoresis.
Authors
- Mihail N. Popescu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1102-7538)
- Álvaro Domínguez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8529-9667)
Institutions
- Universidad de Sevilla (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Fluids
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.l122101
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.62
Funders
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Junta de Andalucía
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación