Hydrodynamic interaction between two vesicles in a simple shear flow

Vesicles are closed bilayers of tensioactive molecules, filled with liquid, inside another liquid. Their size can be between 10 and 100 microns : in this case, they are called giant vesicles. We study the dynamic of two of these objects in a simple shear flow, which is the one of a liquid sheared between two walls translating with respect to each other at a constant speed and distance. We begin by an asymptotic study, for quasispherical vesicles in the far field interacting regime. We then use a numerical code based on the boundary element method to study the case of less spherical and closer vesicles, and compare our results with experiments. We finish by presenting how this study can be used to predict some diffusing properties of a sheared suspension of vesicles, in the semidilute regime, where only the details of two body interactions are considered.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00982554
Author Gires, Pierre-Yves
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 5, 2026, 13:28 (UTC)
Created May 5, 2026, 13:28 (UTC)
Identifier NNT: 2012GRENY062
Language fr
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contributor Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique [Saint Martin d’Hères] (LIPhy) ; Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Gires, Pierre-Yves
date 2012-10-18T00:00:00
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