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Batchelor's formula and infrared renormalization for sedimentation

Mitia Duerinckx·Antoine Gloria
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We study the sedimentation of stationary random suspensions of rigid particles in Stokes flow. Batchelor's formula predicts the first dilute correction to the infinite-volume mean settling speed due to hydrodynamic interactions between suspended particles. A rigorous derivation has long been obstructed by the long-range nature of the Stokes flow, which gives rise to infrared divergences in the large-volume limit. In dimension $d>2$, for stationary suspensions satisfying quantitative decorrelation assumptions, we construct the infinite-volume mean settling speed and show that it governs the relative settling speed of particles in large containers, independently of the container shape. We then establish a renormalized cluster expansion of this mean settling speed in the dilute regime and compute it up to the two-particle term, thereby justifying Batchelor's formula. The proof is based on the infrared renormalization of hydrodynamic interactions. Infinite-volume observables are decomposed into an explicit singular part, carrying the non-integrable large-scale contribution, and a regular remainder controlled by elliptic estimates. The singular part is renormalized through counterterms that encode the diverging mean backflow generated by the suspension. At the level of the dilute cluster expansion, the renormalization is implemented cluster by cluster and the singular-regular decomposition is achieved through a finitary diagrammatic expansion of hydrodynamic interactions, inspired by the method of reflections, which isolates the leading divergent substructures and exposes the key cancellations.

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Mitia Duerinckx, Antoine Gloria. 2026-07-10. Batchelor's formula and infrared renormalization for sedimentation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09995

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