Slip-induced odd viscous flow past a cylinder

Abstract

Odd viscosity is a transport coefficient that can occur when fluids experience breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetry. Previous knowledge indicates that cylinders in incompressible odd viscous fluids, under no-slip boundary conditions, do not exhibit lift force, a phenomenon that poses challenges for the experimental detection of odd viscosity. This study investigates the impact of slip in Stokes flow, employing the odd generalization of the Lorentz reciprocal theorem. Our findings reveal that, at linear order in slip length, lift does not manifest. Subsequently, we explore the scenario involving a thin sheet with momentum decay as well as that of a finite system size, demonstrating that for Stokes flow lift does occur for the second order slip length contribution. We address cylinder flow beyond the Stokes approximation by solving the Oseen equation to obtain a fluid profile that shows an interplay between odd viscosity and inertia, and acquire an explicit expression for the leading order slip length contribution to Oseen lift at low Reynolds number.