Colloidal Magnus effect in polymer solutions
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| author | De Corato, Marco Zhang, Kun Zhu, Lailai |
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| contents | Rotating particles moving in fluids undergo a transverse migration via the inertia-induced Magnus effect. This phenomenon vanishes at colloidal scales because inertia is negligible and the fluid flow is time reversible. Yet, recent experiments discovered an inverse Magnus effect of colloids in polymeric and micellar solutions supposedly because their viscoelasticity breaks the time reversibility. Our study shows that classical viscoelastic features -- normal-stress differences and/or shear-thinning cannot explain this phenomenon. Instead, it originates from local polymer density inhomogeneities due to their stress-gradient-induced transport, a mechanism increasingly important at smaller scales -- indeed relevant to colloidal experiments. Incorporating this mechanism into our model leads to quantitative agreement with the experiments without fitting parameters. Our work provides new insights into colloidal motion in complex fluids with microstructural inhomogeneities, offers a simple mechanistic theory for predicting the resulting migration, and underscores the necessity of assimilating these findings in future designs of micro-machinery including swimmers, actuators, rheometers, and so on. |
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| spellingShingle | Colloidal Magnus effect in polymer solutions De Corato, Marco Zhang, Kun Zhu, Lailai Soft Condensed Matter Rotating particles moving in fluids undergo a transverse migration via the inertia-induced Magnus effect. This phenomenon vanishes at colloidal scales because inertia is negligible and the fluid flow is time reversible. Yet, recent experiments discovered an inverse Magnus effect of colloids in polymeric and micellar solutions supposedly because their viscoelasticity breaks the time reversibility. Our study shows that classical viscoelastic features -- normal-stress differences and/or shear-thinning cannot explain this phenomenon. Instead, it originates from local polymer density inhomogeneities due to their stress-gradient-induced transport, a mechanism increasingly important at smaller scales -- indeed relevant to colloidal experiments. Incorporating this mechanism into our model leads to quantitative agreement with the experiments without fitting parameters. Our work provides new insights into colloidal motion in complex fluids with microstructural inhomogeneities, offers a simple mechanistic theory for predicting the resulting migration, and underscores the necessity of assimilating these findings in future designs of micro-machinery including swimmers, actuators, rheometers, and so on. |
| title | Colloidal Magnus effect in polymer solutions |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17825 |