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Tangential electroviscous drag on a sphere surrounded by a thin double layer near a wall for arbitrary particle–wall separations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2010

S. M. TABATABAEI  and
T. G. M. VAN DE VEN
S. M. TABATABAEI
Affiliation:
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Zabol, 98615-538 Zabol, Iran
T. G. M. VAN DE VEN*
Affiliation:
Pulp and Paper Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, CanadaH3A 2A7
*
†Email address for correspondence: theo.vandeven@mcgill.ca
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Abstract

When a charged particle moves along a charged wall in a polar fluid, it experiences an electroviscous lift force normal to the surface and an electroviscous drag, superimposed on the viscous drag, parallel to the surface. Here a theoretical analysis is presented to determine the electroviscous drag on a charged spherical particle surrounded by a thin electrical double layer near a charged plane wall, when the particle translates parallel to the wall without rotation, in a symmetric electrolyte solution at rest. The electroviscous (electro-hydrodynamic) forces, arising from the coupling between the electrical and hydrodynamic equations, are determined as a solution of three partial differential equations, for electroviscous ion concentration (perturbed ion clouds), electroviscous potential (perturbed electric potential) and electroviscous or electro-hydrodynamic flow field (perturbed flow field). The problem was previously solved for small gap widths and low Peclet numbers in the inner region around the gap between the sphere and the wall, using lubrication theory. Here the restriction on the particle–wall distances is removed, and an analytical and numerical solution is obtained valid for the whole domain of interest. For large sphere–wall separations the solution approaches that for the electroviscous drag on an isolated sphere in an unbounded fluid. For small particle–wall distances it differs from that obtained by the use of lubrication theory, showing that lubrication theory is inadequate for electroviscous problems. The analytical results are in complete agreement with the full numerical calculations. For small particle–wall distances a model is given which provides both physical insight and an easy way to calculate the force with high precision.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 656 , 10 August 2010 , pp. 360 - 406
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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