Particle microhydrodynamics

This chapter is essentially concerned with the hydrodynamics of mixtures containing non-charged particles and macromolecules, that is, molecules with molecular mass exceeding 10 and particles with sizes in the range 0.1-100 pm. For the branch of hydrodynamics concerned with the study of motion of liquids containing macromolecules and small particles, G.K. Batchelor [1] coined the term microhydrodynamics . The distinctive features of microhydrodynamics may be summarized as follows ... 

As can be noted, Eq. (83), often ealled the ereeping flow or Stokes equation [74], is linear, which facilitates its analytical solution. Equation (83) is therefore often used for describing the microhydrodynamic behavior of particles (e.g., their motion in the vicinity of interfaces). 

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