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A Boundary Integral Equation Formulation for Vesicle Electrohydrodynamics Wu, Bobbie

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The electrohydrodynamics (EHD) of vesicle suspensions is characterized by studying their pairwise interactions in applied DC electric fields in two dimensions. A boundary integral equation (BIE) based formulation for vesicle EHD is introduced, followed by a solution scheme based on Stokes and Laplace potential theory. In the dilute limit, the rheology of the suspension is shown to vary nonlinearly with the electric conductivity ratio of the interior and exterior fluids. We demonstrate our capability of simulating EHD phenomena including one vesicle deformation, pairwise interaction, and multiple vesicle interactions.

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