Effective slip-length tensor for a flow over weakly slipping stripes

Abstract

We discuss the flow past a flat heterogeneous solid surface decorated by slipping stripes. The spatially varying slip length, $b(y)$, is assumed to be small compared to the scale of the heterogeneities, $L$, but finite. For such "weakly" slipping surfaces, earlier analyses have predicted that the effective slip length is simply given by the surface-averaged slip length, which implies that the effective slip-length tensor becomes isotropic. Here we show that a different scenario is expected if the local slip length has step-like jumps at the edges of slipping heterogeneities. In this case, the next-to-leading term in an expansion of the effective slip-length tensor in powers of $max(b(y)/L)$ becomes comparable to the leading-order term, but anisotropic, even at very small $b(y)/L$. This leads to an anisotropy of the effective slip, and to its significant reduction compared to the surface-averaged value. The asymptotic formulae are tested by numerical solutions and are in agreement with results of dissipative particle dynamics simulations.

11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E

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