Abstract
The behaviour of rigid spheres suspended in viscous liquids undergoing laminar shear flow was compared experimentally with the approximate theory developed earlier. Good agreement was obtained for a sphere near a wall and for equatorial interactions between two spheres of both equal and unequal diameters. In the region close to but not touching the wall, the theory byGoldman et al. accurately described the motion of a sphere. The prediction that a sphere touching the wall should stick to it could not be confirmed. A viewing device, designed to study motions in two planes simultaneously was used to make several interesting observations on permanent and separating doublet. Some similarities between collisions in the equatorial plane and two-body interactions of vertically oriented rigid circular cylinders were noted. The asymmetry and reversibility of triple collisions as well as the ease of formation of permanent doublets in flowing suspensions were established.
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