The effect of Brownian motion on the transport properties of a suspension of spherical particles

B.U. Felderhof

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1983, vol. 118, issue 1, 69-78

Abstract: We discuss the effect of Brownian motion on the transport properties of a suspension of spherical particles immersed in an incompressible fluid satisfying the equations for creeping flow. We derive a Smoluchowski equation for the probability distribution in the particle configuration space with time-dependent imposed flow and applied forces. It is shown that retardation of the distribution function gives rise to a frequency dependence of the effective viscosity of the suspension.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(83)90177-2

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