Stress blow-up analysis when suspending rigid particles approach boundary in 3D Stokes flow

Abstract

The stress concentration is a common phenomenon in the study of fluid-solid model. In this paper, we investigate the boundary gradient estimates and the second order derivatives estimates for the Stokes flow when the rigid particles approach the boundary of the matrix in dimension three. We classify the effect on the blow-up rates of the stress from the prescribed various boundary data: locally constant case and locally polynomial case. Our results hold for general convex inclusions, including two important cases in practice, spherical inclusions and ellipsoidal inclusions. The blow-up rates of the Cauchy stress in the narrow region are also obtained. We establish the corresponding estimates in higher dimensions greater than three.