Journal
PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3277665
Keywords
drops; Poiseuille flow; surfactants
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- NSF [CBET-0846247]
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
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In Stokes flows, symmetry considerations dictate that a neutrally buoyant spherical particle will not migrate laterally with respect to the local flow direction. We show that a loss of symmetry due to flow-induced surfactant redistribution leads to cross-stream drift of a spherical drop in Poiseuille flow. We derive analytical expressions for the migration velocity in the limit of small nonuniformities in the surfactant distribution, corresponding to weak-flow conditions or a high-viscosity drop. The analysis predicts migration toward the flow centerline.
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