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Oscillatory Shear Flows of Two Hydrodynamically Interacting Spheres at Low Reynolds Numbers

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The Demonstration displays the trajectories of two hydrodynamically interacting spheres exhibiting oscillatory shear flow. Newtonian fluid behavior at low Reynolds numbers is assumed.

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The data for the motions of the spheres, beginning with a particular symmetric geometric arrangement, comes from Stokesian dynamics, a three-dimensional numerical simulation method developed in the mid-1980s by Bossis and Brady.

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Contributed by: Housam Binous (January 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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[1] J. Brady and G. Bossis, "Stokesian Dynamics," Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 20, 1988 pp. 111–157. doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.20.010188.000551.

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