Comparison of Approximations between Additivity of Velocities and Additivity of Forces for Stokesian Dynamics Methods

✍ Scribed by Akira Satoh

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 532 KB
• Volume: 243
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9797
• DOI: 10.1006/jcis.2001.7852

✦ Synopsis

The characteristics and differences in the two approximations, i.e., the additivity of forces and the additivity of velocities, on which Stokesian dynamics methods are based, have been investigated. Stokesian dynamics simulations of a ferromagnetic colloidal dispersion have been carried out for a simple shear flow, and the aggregate structures and averaged viscosities have been evaluated. From the results of aggregate structures in equilibrium, the correlation functions obtained by the additivity of forces are quantitatively different from those by the approximation of ignoring hydrodynamic interactions, although a qualitative agreement is recognized. The results obtained by the additivity of velocities give medium characteristics between the two above approximations. The shape of the pair correlation function for the additivity of velocities approaches that for the additivity of forces as the influence of magnetic interactions decreases. From the results of transient characteristics from an initial state, the results by the additivity of velocities agree well with those by the additivity of forces. In contrast, the results without hydrodynamic interactions deviate from those of the two additivity approximations at a time step when a nearly particleparticle touching situation starts to appear.