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Particulate suspensions of solids in liquids can be understood in terms of the microstructure of the solid phase by using the well-known techniques of numerical statistical mechanics. The major problem with such an approach has been the incorporation of the long-range, many-body hydrodynamic forces between the suspended particles. In this paper I describe a general computational method for calculating the forces and torques exerted by slowly moving spheres suspended in an incompressible fluid. The method can be used to determine bulk constitutive properties of solid-fluid suspensions or particulate porous media. Numerical results for the sedimentation velocity and high frequency viscosity of monodisperse suspensions have been obtained, and the results are shown to compare very well with experimental measurement.
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Ladd, A.J.C. (1990). Hydrodynamic Interactions and Transport Coefficients in a Suspension of Spherical Particles. In: Mareschal, M. (eds) Microscopic Simulations of Complex Flows. NATO ASI Series, vol 236. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1339-7_9
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