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Rods falling near a vertical wall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

W. B. Russel ,
E. J. Hinch ,
L. G. Leal  and
G. Tieffenbruck
W. B. Russel
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
E. J. Hinch
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
L. G. Leal
Affiliation:
Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
G. Tieffenbruck
Affiliation:
Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Abstract

As an inclined rod sediments in an unbounded viscous fluid it will drift horizontally but will not rotate. When it approaches a vertical wall, the rod rotates and so turns away from the wall. Illustrative experiments and a slender-body theory of this phenomenon are presented. In an incidental study the friction coefficients for an isolated rod are found by numerical solution of the slender-body integral equation. These friction coefficients are compared with the asymptotic results of Batchelor (1970) and the numerical results of Youngren ' Acrivos (1975), who did not make a slender-body approximation.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 83 , Issue 2 , 22 November 1977 , pp. 273 - 287
Copyright
© 1977 Cambridge University Press

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