6 papers
Concentration Matters: Enhancing Particle Settling in Narrow Tilted Channels
Dipankar Kundu, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Adolfo Vázquez-Quesada +1
Particles are known to sediment faster in containers with tilted walls than in vertical ones, a phenomenon known as the Boycott effect. In this work, we investigate how the tilt an…
Simulating non-Brownian suspensions with non-homogeneous Navier slip boundary conditions
Daniela Moreno-Chaparro, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Nicolas Moreno +1
Fluid-structure interactions are commonly modeled using no-slip boundary conditions. However, small deviations from these conditions can significantly alter the dynamics of suspens…
Modeling complex particle suspensions: perspectives on the rigid multiblob method
Blaise Delmotte, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga
Many suspensions contain particles with complex shapes that are affected not only by hydrodynamics, but also by thermal fluctuations, internal kinematic constraints and other long-…
Settling dynamics of non-Brownian suspension of spherical and cubic particles in Stokes flow
Dipankar Kundu, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Marco Ellero
The present study investigates the gravity-driven settling dynamics of non-Brownian suspensions of spherical and cubic particles within a triply periodic domain. The effect of soli…
A scalable method to model large suspensions of colloidal phoretic particles with arbitrary shapes
Blaise Delmotte, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga
Phoretic colloids self-propel thanks to surface flows generated in response to surface gradients (thermal, electrical, or chemical), that are self-induced and/or generated by other…
Mapping flagellated swimmers to surface-slip driven swimmers
H. Gidituri, G. KabacaoÄlu, M. Ellero +1
Flagellated microswimmers are ubiquitous in natural habitats. Understanding the hydrodynamic behavior of these cells is of paramount interest, owing to their applications in bio-me…