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Self-diffusiophoresis of Janus particles at large Damköhler numbers. (English) Zbl 1507.35172

The authors consider a self-diffusiophoresis problem for a Janus particle in the fast-reaction limit, where the solute concentration satisfies a mixed boundary-value problem written in a dimensionless formulation as: \(\nabla ^{2}c=0\), inside the spherical particle, where \(c\) is the solute concentration, with the kinetic condition at the particle boundary \(r=1\), \( \frac{\partial c}{\partial r}=Da\ c\), if \(0<\theta <\pi /2\), and \(\frac{ \partial c}{\partial r}=0\), if \(\pi /2<\theta <\pi \), and the approach to the equilibrium concentration at large distances \(c\rightarrow 1\) as \( r\rightarrow \infty \). Here \(Da\) is Damköhler coefficient, which is here supposed to be large, implying \(c=0\) for \(0<\theta <\pi /2\), and \(\frac{ \partial c}{\partial r}=0\) for \(\pi /2<\theta <\pi \). The author proposes the following expression for the solution to this problem: \(c(r,\mu )-1=\sum^{\infty}_{n=0}B_{n}r^{-(n+1)}P_{n}(\mu )\) and he draws computations to determine its coefficients.

MSC:

35Q35 PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics
76T20 Suspensions
76V05 Reaction effects in flows
76W05 Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics
78A30 Electro- and magnetostatics
35J05 Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation
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