| Issue |
EPL
Volume 97, Number 5, March 2012
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| Article Number | 58005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/97/58005 | |
| Published online | 05 March 2012 | |
Axial dispersion via shear-enhanced diffusion in colloidal suspensions
1
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
2
OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford - Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK, EU
a
ian.griffiths@maths.ox.ac.uk
Received:
10
November
2011
Accepted:
31
January
2012
The familiar example of Taylor dispersion of molecular solutes is extended to describe colloidal suspensions, where the fluctuations that contribute to dispersion arise from hydrodynamic interactions. The generic scheme is illustrated for a suspension of particles in a pressure-driven pipe flow, with a concentration-dependent diffusivity that captures both the shear-induced and Brownian contributions. The effect of the cross-stream migration via shear-induced diffusion is shown to dramatically reduce the axial dispersion predicted by classical Taylor dispersion for a molecular solute. Analytic and numerical solutions are presented that illustrate the effect of the concentration dependence of this nonlinear hydrodynamic mechanism.
PACS: 82.70.Dd – Colloids / 83.50.Ax – Steady shear flows, viscometric flow / 83.50.Ha – Flow in channels
© EPLA, 2012
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