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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 130, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.064001
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The capture of a soft spherical particle in a rectangular slit results in a nonmonotonic pressure-flow rate relationship at low Reynolds number. Simulations demonstrate that the deformations induced by flow focus the streamlines and pressure drop to a small region, significantly increasing the flow resistance. Consequently, two regimes are observed: a flow-dominated regime where flow rate increases with pressure for small particle deformations, and an elastic-dominated regime where solid deformations block the flow.
The capture of a soft spherical particle in a rectangular slit leads to a nonmonotonic pressure-flow rate relation at low Reynolds number. Simulations reveal that the flow induced deformations of the trapped particle focus the streamlines and pressure drop to a small region. This increases the resistance to flow by several orders of magnitude as the driving pressure is increased. As a result, two regimes are observed in experiments and simulations: a flow-dominated regime for small particle deformations, where flow rate increases with pressure, and an elastic-dominated regime in which solid deformations block the flow.
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