Impact of elastic capsules on a solid wall

Satheesh, K and Tomar, G (2022) Impact of elastic capsules on a solid wall. In: European Physical Journal: Special Topics .

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Abstract

Capsules are ubiquitous in medical and biological systems, and other bio-medical industries. Dynamics of capsules in various flow conditions have received significant attention recently. Various numerical, experimental, and analytical studies have given insight into the dependence of capsule dynamics on the membrane and fluid properties. However, impact of capsules on solid walls has been studied scantily in spite of its relevance in many physical and biological systems. We use numerical simulations to study the impact of a spherical capsule on a rigid surface at moderate Weber (We) and Reynolds (Re) numbers. Specifically, we investigate the effect of shear stiffness and area incompressibility of the membrane on the capsule deformation during impact with a rigid surface using the Neo-Hookean and Skalak constitutive models for the membrane. At low We, the maximum deformation of the capsule scales as We1 / 2. Whereas, at low Reynolds numbers and high Weber numbers, the maximum diameter to which the capsule can spread after impact, deviates from the We1 / 2 scaling, due to an increase in the viscous dissipation losses during capsule spreading. Interestingly, the scaling at low Re is given by Re1 / 5 which is also in agreement with that for a liquid droplet. We show that, for low area incompressiblity, Neo-Hookean and Skalak models show similar capsule dynamics. Whereas, for capsules with large area incompressibility and low shear stiffness in the Skalak model, the dynamics is similar to that of Neo-Hookean capsules with large shear stiffness.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	European Physical Journal: Special Topics
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2022 07:44
Last Modified:	05 Oct 2022 07:44
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/77050

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