Hydrodynamic interactions between two semiflexible inextensible filaments in Stokes flow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Abstract

Hydrodynamic interactions between two semiflexible inextensible filaments are shown to have a significant impact on filament buckling and their subsequent motion in Stokesian fluids. In linear shear flow, hydrodynamic interactions lead to filament shear dispersion that depends on the filament aspect ratio and the initial filament separation. In linear extensional flow, hydrodynamic interactions lead to complex filament dynamics around the stagnation point. These results suggest that hydrodynamic interactions need to be taken into account to determine the self-diffusion of non-Brownian semiflexible filaments in a cellular flow. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

Identifier

65649117003 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.046317

e-ISSN

15502376

ISSN

15393755

Issue

4

Volume

79

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