Self-similarity in coupled Brinkman/Navier–Stokes flows

2012 ◽  
Vol 699 ◽  
pp. 94-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilenia Battiato

AbstractIn this paper we derive self-similar solutions of flows through both a porous medium and a pure fluid. Self-similar filtration velocity and hydrodynamic shear profiles are obtained by means of asymptotic analysis in the limit of infinitely small permeability, and for both laminar and turbulent regimes over the porous medium. We show that a spatial length scale, related to the porous layer thickness, naturally emerges from the limiting process and suggests a more formal definition of thick and thin porous media. We finally specialize the analysis to porous media constituted of patterned cylindrical obstacles, which can freely deflect under the aerodynamic shear exerted by the fluid flowing through and over the forest. A self-similar solution for the bending profile of the elastic cylindrical obstacles is obtained as intermediate asymptotics, and applied to carbon nanotube (CNT) forests’ response to aerodynamic stresses. This self-similar solution is successfully used to estimate flexural rigidity of CNTs by linear fit of appropriately rescaled maximum deflection and average velocity measurements.

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
Xinyu He

AbstractLeray's self-similar solution of the Navier-Stokes equations is defined bywhere . Consider the equation for U(y) in a smooth bounded domain D of with non-zero boundary condition:We prove an existence theorem for the Dirichlet problem in Sobolev space W1,2(D). This implies the local existence of a self-similar solution of the Navier-Stokes equations which blows up at t = t* with t* < +∞, provided the function is permissible.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 2271-2320
Author(s):  
Xin Liu ◽  
Yuan Yuan

In this work, we establish a class of globally defined large solutions to the free boundary problem of compressible full Navier–Stokes equations with constant shear viscosity, vanishing bulk viscosity and heat conductivity. We establish such solutions with initial data perturbed around the self-similar solutions when [Formula: see text]. In the case when [Formula: see text], solutions with bounded entropy can be constructed. It should be pointed out that the solutions we obtain in this fashion do not in general keep being a small perturbation of the self-similar solution due to the second law of thermodynamics, i.e. the growth of entropy. If, in addition, in the case when [Formula: see text], we can construct a solution as a global-in-time small perturbation of the self-similar solution and the entropy is uniformly bounded in time. Our result extends the one of Hadžić and Jang [Expanding large global solutions of the equations of compressible fluid mechanics, J. Invent. Math. 214 (2018) 1205.] from the isentropic inviscid case to the non-isentropic viscous case.


1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Hastings ◽  
L. A. Peletier

We discuss the self-similar solutions of the second kind associated with the propagation of turbulent bursts in a fluid at rest. Such solutions involve an eigenvalue parameter μ, which cannot be determined from dimensional analysis. Existence and uniqueness are established and the dependence of μ on a physical parameter λ in the problem is studied: estimates are obtained and the asymptotic behaviour as λ → ∞ is established.


2014 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 218-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Zheng ◽  
Ivan C. Christov ◽  
Howard A. Stone

AbstractWe report experimental, theoretical and numerical results on the effects of horizontal heterogeneities on the propagation of viscous gravity currents. We use two geometries to highlight these effects: (a) a horizontal channel (or crack) whose gap thickness varies as a power-law function of the streamwise coordinate; (b) a heterogeneous porous medium whose permeability and porosity have power-law variations. We demonstrate that two types of self-similar behaviours emerge as a result of horizontal heterogeneity: (a) a first-kind self-similar solution is found using dimensional analysis (scaling) for viscous gravity currents that propagate away from the origin (a point of zero permeability); (b) a second-kind self-similar solution is found using a phase-plane analysis for viscous gravity currents that propagate toward the origin. These theoretical predictions, obtained using the ideas of self-similar intermediate asymptotics, are compared with experimental results and numerical solutions of the governing partial differential equation developed under the lubrication approximation. All three results are found to be in good agreement.


2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 812-823
Author(s):  
I. I. But ◽  
A. M. Gailfullin ◽  
V. V. Zhvick

Abstract We consider a steady submerged laminar jet of viscous incompressible fluid flowing out of a tube and propagating along a solid plane surface. The numerical solution of Navier–Stokes equations is obtained in the stationary three-dimensional formulation. The hypothesis that at large distances from the tube exit the flowfield is described by the self-similar solution of the parabolized Navier–Stokes equations is confirmed. The asymptotic expansions of the self-similar solution are obtained for small and large values of the coordinate in the jet cross-section. Using the numerical solution the self-similarity exponent is determined. An explicit dependence of the self-similar solution on the Reynolds number and the conditions in the jet source is determined.


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