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The dynamics of a capsule in a wall-bounded oscillating shear flow

Zhu, Lailai  
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Rabault, Jean
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Brandt, Luca
2015
Physics Of Fluids

The motion of an initially spherical capsule in a wall-bounded oscillating shear flow is investigated via an accelerated boundary integral implementation. The neo-Hookean model is used as the constitutive law of the capsule membrane. The maximum wall-normal migration is observed when the oscillation period of the imposed shear is of the order of the relaxation time of the elastic membrane; hence, the optimal capillary number scales with the inverse of the oscillation frequency and the ratio agrees well with the theoretical prediction in the limit of high-frequency oscillation. The migration velocity decreases monotonically with the frequency of the applied shear and the capsule-wall distance. We report a significant correlation between the capsule lateral migration and the normal stress difference induced in the flow. The periodic variation of the capsule deformation is roughly in phase with that of the migration velocity and normal stress difference, with twice the frequency of the imposed shear. The maximum deformation increases linearly with the membrane elasticity before reaching a plateau at higher capillary numbers when the deformation is limited by the time over which shear is applied in the same direction and not by the membrane deformability. The maximum membrane deformation scales as the distance to the wall to the power 1/3 as observed for capsules and droplets in near-wall steady shear flows.

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research article
DOI
10.1063/1.4926675
Web of Science ID

WOS:000358872200004

Author(s)
Zhu, Lailai  
Rabault, Jean
Brandt, Luca
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Amer Inst Physics

Published in
Physics Of Fluids
Volume

27

Issue

7

Article Number

071902

Subjects

Capsule

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cell membrane

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cell migration

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shear deformation

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general geometry Ewald summation

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boundary integral method

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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July 16, 2015
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