1208.1452 (Bogdan Cichocki et al.)

Short-time dynamics and high-frequency rheology of core-shell

suspensions with thin-shells    [PDF]

Bogdan Cichocki, Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska, Eligiusz Wajnryb

Short-time dynamics and high-frequency rheology for suspensions of non-overlapping core-shell particles with thin shells were analyzed. In the thin-shell limit, the single-particle scattering coefficients were derived and shown to define a unique effective radius. This result was used to justify theoretically (in the thin-shell limit) the accuracy of the annulus approximation with the inner radius equal to the effective hydrodynamic radius of the core-shell particle. The two-particle virial expansion of the translational & rotational self-diffusion, sedimentation and viscosity was performed. The virial coefficients were evaluated and shown to be accurately approximated by the effective annulus model, in contrast to the imprecise effective hard sphere model.

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