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Focusing and splitting streams of soft particles in microflows via viscosity gradients

  • Matthias Laumann
  • Walter ZimmermannEmail author
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Abstract.

Microflows are intensively used for investigating and controlling the dynamics of particles, including soft particles such as biological cells and capsules. A classic result is the tank-treading motion of elliptically deformed soft particles in linear shear flows, which do not migrate across straight streamlines in the bulk. However, soft particles migrate across straight streamlines in Poiseuille flows. In this work we describe a new mechanism of cross-streamline migration by using soft capsules with a spherical equilibrium shape. If the viscosity varies perpendicular to the streamlines then the soft particles migrate across streamlines towards regions of a lower viscosity, even in linear shear flows. An interplay with the repulsive particle-boundary interaction causes then focusing of particles in linear shear flows with the attractor streamline closer to the wall in the low viscosity region. Viscosity variations perpendicular to the streamlines in Poiseuille flows leads either to a shift of the particle attractor or even to a splitting of particle attractors, which may give rise to interesting applications for particle separation. The location of attracting streamlines depend on the particle properties, like their size and elasticity. The cross-stream migration induced by viscosity variations is explained by analytical considerations, Stokesian dynamics simulations with a generalized Oseen tensor and lattice-Boltzmann simulations.

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Flowing Matter: Liquids and Complex Fluids 
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  1. 1.Theoretische Physik IUniversität BayreuthBayreuthGermany

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