DRAG FORCE OF A POROUS PARTICLE MOVING AXISYMMETRICALLY IN A CLOSED CAVITY OF MICROPOLAR FLUID

The present paper deals with the problem of an incompressible axisymmetric creeping flow caused by a porous spherical particle in a spherical cavity filled with micropolar fluid. Depending on the kind of cell model, appropriate boundary conditions are used on the surface of sphere and spherical cavity. Drag force on the porous particle in the presence of a cavity is calculated to determine the correction factor to the Stokes law. A general expression for the hydrodynamic force acting on the porous sphere and, hence, for the wall correction factor of the sphere are obtained. The special cases of the porous sphere in viscous fluid, zero permeability solid sphere in micropolar fluid and viscous fluid are obtained in open and closed cavity respectively.