Lubrication corrections for three-particle contribution to short-time self-diffusion coefficients in colloidal dispersions

It is shown that the standard treatment of lubrication effects in many-particle hydrodynamic interactions leads to divergent three-particle contributions to the short-time translational self-diffusion coefficient. To resolve the problem the improved method to account for lubrication is proposed. The translational and rotational self-diffusion coefficients of the Brownian semidilute suspension are then evaluated up to terms of the second order in volume fraction. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-9606(99)50231-6].