Dynamics of the interface between miscible liquids subjected to horizontal vibration

2015 ◽  
Vol 784 ◽  
pp. 342-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. A. Gaponenko ◽  
M. Torregrosa ◽  
V. Yasnou ◽  
A. Mialdun ◽  
V. Shevtsova

We present experimental evidence of the existence of an interfacial instability between two miscible liquids of similar (but non-identical) viscosities and densities under horizontal vibration. A stably stratified two-layer system is composed of the same binary mixture with different concentrations placed in a confined cell (with length twice as large as the height). Unlike the case of immiscible fluids, here, the interface is a transient layer of small but non-zero thickness. In the experiments, the frequency and amplitude were varied within the ranges 2–24 Hz and 1.5–16 mm, respectively. When the value of the oscillatory forcing increases, the amplitudes of the interface perturbations grow continuously, forming a saw-tooth frozen structure. This evolution is also examined numerically. In addition to the solutions of full 3-D Navier–Stokes equations, an averaging approach with separation of time scales is used for situations in which the forcing period is very small compared to the natural time scales of the problem. The simulation of averaged equations provides the explanation of the instability development, the calculations of the full nonlinear equations shed light on the decay of a wavy pattern. The results of numerical modelling perfectly support the experimental observations.

Analysis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-150
Author(s):  
Tania Biswas ◽  
Sheetal Dharmatti ◽  
Manil T. Mohan

AbstractIn this paper, we formulate a distributed optimal control problem related to the evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immiscible fluids in a two-dimensional bounded domain. The distributed optimal control problem is framed as the minimization of a suitable cost functional subject to the controlled nonlocal Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes equations. We describe the first order necessary conditions of optimality via the Pontryagin minimum principle and prove second order necessary and sufficient conditions of optimality for the problem.


2012 ◽  
Vol 712 ◽  
pp. 579-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoranjan Mishra ◽  
A. De Wit ◽  
Kirti Chandra Sahu

AbstractThe pressure-driven miscible displacement of a less viscous fluid by a more viscous one in a horizontal channel is studied. This is a classically stable system if the more viscous solution is the displacing one. However, we show by numerical simulations based on the finite-volume approach that, in this system, double diffusive effects can be destabilizing. Such effects can appear if the fluid consists of a solvent containing two solutes both influencing the viscosity of the solution and diffusing at different rates. The continuity and Navier–Stokes equations coupled to two convection–diffusion equations for the evolution of the solute concentrations are solved. The viscosity is assumed to depend on the concentrations of both solutes, while density contrast is neglected. The results demonstrate the development of various instability patterns of the miscible ‘interface’ separating the fluids provided the two solutes diffuse at different rates. The intensity of the instability increases when increasing the diffusivity ratio between the faster-diffusing and the slower-diffusing solutes. This brings about fluid mixing and accelerates the displacement of the fluid originally filling the channel. The effects of varying dimensionless parameters, such as the Reynolds number and Schmidt number, on the development of the ‘interfacial’ instability pattern are also studied. The double diffusive instability appears after the moment when the invading fluid penetrates inside the channel. This is attributed to the presence of inertia in the problem.


Author(s):  
Charles G. Speziale

The high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows of technological importance contain such a wide range of excited length and time scales that the application of direct or large-eddy simulations is all but impossible for the foreseeable future. Reynolds stress models remain the only viable means for the solution of these complex turbulent flows. It is widely believed that Reynolds stress models are completely ad hoc, having no formal connection with solutions of the full Navier-Stokes equations for turbulent flows. While this belief is largely warranted for the older eddy viscosity models of turbulence, it constitutes a far too pessimistic assessment of the current generation of Reynolds stress closures. It will be shown how secondorder closure models and two-equation models with an anisotropic eddy viscosity can be systematically derived from the Navier-Stokes equations when one overriding assumption is made: the turbulence is locally homogeneous and in equilibrium. A brief review of zero equation models and one equation models based on the Boussinesq eddy viscosity hypothesis will first be provided in order to gain a perspective on the earlier approaches to Reynolds stress modeling. It will, however, be argued that since turbulent flows contain length and time scales that change dramatically from one flow configuration to the next, two-equation models constitute the minimum level of closure that is physically acceptable. Typically, modeled transport equations are solved for the turbulent kinetic energy and dissipation rate from which the turbulent length and time scales are built up; this obviates the need to specify these scales in an ad hoc fashion. While two-equation models represent the minimum acceptable closure, second-order closure models constitute the most complex level of closure that is currently feasible from a computational standpoint. It will be shown how the former models follow from the latter in the equilibrium limit of homogeneous turbulence. However, the two-equation models that are formally consistent with second-order closures have an anisotropic eddy viscosity with strain-dependent coefficients - a feature that most of the commonly used models do not possess.


2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 1129-1160 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDUARD FEIREISL ◽  
HANA PETZELTOVÁ ◽  
ELISABETTA ROCCA ◽  
GIULIO SCHIMPERNA

A model describing the evolution of a binary mixture of compressible, viscous, and macroscopically immiscible fluids is investigated. The existence of global-in-time weak solutions for the resulting system coupling the compressible Navier–Stokes equations governing the motion of the mixture with the Allen–Cahn equation for the order parameter is proved without any restriction on the size of initial data.


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 1001-1014
Author(s):  
Yap Yit Fatt ◽  
Afshin Goharzadeh

Particle deposition occurs in many engineering multiphase flows. A model for particle deposition in two-fluid flow is presented in this article. The two immiscible fluids with one carrying particles are model using incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Particles are assumed to deposit onto surfaces as a first order reaction. The evolving interfaces: fluid-fluid interface and fluid-deposit front, are captured using the level-set method. A finite volume method is employed to solve the governing conservation equations. Model verifications are made against limiting cases with known solutions. The model is then used to investigate particle deposition in a stratified two-fluid flow and a cavity with a rising bubble. For a stratified two-fluid flow, deposition occurs more rapidly for a higher Damkholer number but a lower viscosity ratio (fluid without particle to that with particles). For a cavity with a rising bubble, deposition is faster for a higher Damkholer number and a higher initial particle concentration, but is less affected by viscosity ratio.


Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Rezanova

The paper considers the flow in a three-layer system "liquid–liquid–gas" in a horizontal chan- nel with solid impermeable walls.The evaporation process at the thermocapillary interface of the liquid and gas is taken into account. The Soret and Dufour effects are taken into account in the upper layer filled with a gas-vapor mixture. The system of Navier-Stokes equations in the Boussinesq approximation is used as a mathematical model. A temperature regime is set on the channel walls. Liquid evaporation is modeled using the conditions at the liquid-gas interface. Exact solution of a special type describing the flow in a three-layer system is constructed. The velocity profiles are presented on the example of the "silicone oil–water–air" system for various values of gas flow rate, longitudinal temperature gradients at the system boundaries, thicknesses of liquid and gas-vapor layers


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 7369-7378
Author(s):  
Ky-Quang Pham ◽  
Xuan-Truong Le ◽  
Cong-Truong Dinh

Splitter blades located between stator blades in a single-stage axial compressor were proposed and investigated in this work to find their effects on aerodynamic performance and operating stability. Aerodynamic performance of the compressor was evaluated using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations using the k-e turbulence model with a scalable wall function. The numerical results for the typical performance parameters without stator splitter blades were validated in comparison with experimental data. The numerical results of a parametric study using four geometric parameters (chord length, coverage angle, height and position) of the stator splitter blades showed that the operational stability of the single-stage axial compressor enhances remarkably using the stator splitter blades. The splitters were effective in suppressing flow separation in the stator domain of the compressor at near-stall condition which affects considerably the aerodynamic performance of the compressor.


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