Viscoplastic slender-body theory

DR Hewitt, NJ Balmforth - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
… more general situation of creeping viscoplastic flow around an … inherent in the viscoplastic
rheology prohibits the simple … to provide the viscoplastic analogue of slender-body theory for …

Dropping slender-body theory into the mud

SE Spagnolie - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
theoretical advances to come from this period in fluid mechanics were ‘slender-body theories
Our understanding of motion through viscoplastic fluids is now poised to see a progression …

Swimming in viscoplastic fluids

DR Hewitt - Rheologica Acta, 2024 - Springer
… In each case, we will employ a viscoplastic version of classical slender-body theory to describe
the motion: the building blocks for this problem are outlined in the following section. Note …

A slender-body micromechanical model for viscoelasticity of magnetic colloids: Comparison with preliminary experimental data

J De Vicente, MT López-López, JDG Durán… - Journal of colloid and …, 2005 - Elsevier
… In this work, we present both experimental and theoretical results on the viscoelastic properties
of … We describe a new model based on the slender-body approach for hydrodynamic …

Resistive-force theory of slender bodies in viscosity gradients

C Kamal, E Lauga - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
… He showed that the disturbance field of a slender body … -force theory (RFT), the leading-order
slender-body theory used to … the centreline of the slender body is not deforming with time. …

Elastohydrodynamical instabilities of active filaments, arrays, and carpets analyzed using slender-body theory

AS Sangani, A Gopinath - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
… gap in the current theories by using slenderbody theory (SBT) to … Finally, results from the
slender-body-based theory can be … hydrodynamic calculations using slender-body theory for a …

Mud swimming: Locomotion through a viscoplastic fluid

D Hewitt - Science Talks, 2022 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
… in ‘simple’ viscoplastic (Bingham) fluids are considered from a theoretical and numerical …
of which involves a generalisation of classical slender-body theory for viscoplastic fluids. …

Stretching of a straight electrically charged viscoelastic jet

JJ Feng - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2003 - Elsevier
… This paper presents a slender-body theory for the stretching of a straight charged jet of
Giesekus fluid. Results show strain-hardening as the most influential rheological property. It …

A nonlocal theory for stress in bound, Brownian suspensions of slender, rigid fibres

RL Schiek, ESG Shaqfeh - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1995 - cambridge.org
… forces and general body torques we use slender-body theory (Batchelor 1970; Shaqfeh
& Fredrickson 1990). The primary result of this theory states that, when evaluated at the fibre …

Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in viscoelastic fluids

B Liu, TR Powers, KS Breuer - Proceedings of the National …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
viscoelasticslender-body theories and a boundary-element method, we precisely calculate
the ratio of swimming speed to rotation speed and find excellent agreement between theory