(256g) Revisiting Brenner's Stokes Resistance of a Deformed Sphere
AIChE Annual Meeting
2024
2024 AIChE Annual Meeting
Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals
Colloidal Hydrodynamics
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 9:45am to 10:00am
We revisit Brenner's classic 1964 study on the Stokes resistance of slightly deformed spheres. Brenner's technique, involving asymptotic expansion, solves Stokes fluid flow around these shapes using two mapping steps: initially mapping surface velocity of a deformed sphere to that of a reference sphere, and then applying Lamb's general solution for any point in the fluid. Expanding on this, we employ a spectral method for axisymmetric Stokes flow, developing a method to address large deformations using multiple orders of perturbation.