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Anh V Nguyen1, Geoffrey M Evans
1Discipline of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia. anh.nguyen@newcastle.edu.au
Abstract:
In this paper mathematical expressions have been developed to describe the hydrodynamic resistance force on a colloidal particle as it slides along a slip surface of a gas bubble held stationary in a quiescent liquid. The particle size was considered to be sufficiently small relative to the bubble size so that the bubble surface could be locally approximated to a planar interface. The modeling incorporated a bispherical coordinate transformation to solve the equations governing the liquid creeping flow disturbed by the particle. Exact numerical solutions for the resistance coefficients of the particle-shearing motion parallel to the slip bubble surface were obtained as a function of the separation distance from the bubble surface. Finally, simplified analytical rational approximations for the whole range of the separation distance were presented, which were in good agreement with the exact numerical result. Importantly, the approximations for the modeling and simulation of the bubble-particle interactions are mathematically tractable.
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