Analytical approximations for the orientation distribution of small dipolar particles in steady shear flows

DOI10.1007/s002850050101zbMath0895.92010OpenAlexW2044869669MaRDI QIDQ1384151

Timothy J. Pedley, Nicholas A. Hill, Martin A. Bees

Publication date: 20 September 1998

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/34648/1/bees_hill_pedley98.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationsuspensionsbioconvectiondipolar particleslow-Reynolds-number shear floworientation distributionsorientation probability density function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biophysics (92C05) Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Physiological flow (92C35) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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