Hydromagnetic Stability Analysis of a Film Coating Flow Down a Rotating Vertical Cylinder

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.-J. Cheng ◽  
K.-C. Liu ◽  
D. T. W. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Film ◽  
Thin Liquid Film ◽  
Vertical Cylinder ◽  
Film Coating ◽  
Rossby Number ◽  
Free Film ◽  
Coating Flow ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Film Flows ◽  
The Magnetic Field

ABSTRACTThe influence of both the Rossby number and the Hartmann number on the hydromagnetic stability of a thin liquid film flowing down along the surface of a vertical cylinder is investigated. The long-wave perturbation method is employed to solve for generalized nonlinear kinematic equations with a free film interface. The normal mode approach is used to compute the stability solution for the film flow. The modeling results indicate that the stability of the liquid film is enhanced by increasing the strength of the magnetic field or reducing the speed at which the cylinder rotates. By contrast, the flow becomes relatively more unstable as the cylinder radius is increased at larger values of the Rossby number. Notably, this finding is the opposite of that observed for film flows along a stationary vertical cylinder.

STABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE THIN POWER LAW LIQUID FILM FLOWING DOWN ON A VERTICAL CYLINDER

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po-Jen Cheng ◽  
Kuo-Chi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Film ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Film Flow ◽  
Vertical Cylinder ◽  
Flow Index ◽  
Free Film ◽  
Long Wave ◽  
Lateral Curvature ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Film Interface

The paper investigates the stability theory of a thin power law liquid film flowing down along the outside surface of a vertical cylinder. The long-wave perturbation method is employed to solve for generalized linear kinematic equations with free film interface. The normal mode approach is used to compute the stability solution for the film flow. The degree of instability in the film flow is further intensified by the lateral curvature of cylinder. This is somewhat different from that of the planar flow. The analysis results also indicate that by increasing the flow index and increasing the radius of the cylinder the film flow can become relatively more stable as traveling down along the vertical cylinder.

Stability Analysis on Viscous Magnetic Fluid Film Flowing Down Along a Vertical Cylinder

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.-J. Cheng ◽  
K.-C. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Film Flow ◽  
Vertical Cylinder ◽  
Fluid Film ◽  
Electrically Conductive ◽  
Free Film ◽  
Long Wave ◽  
Lateral Curvature ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Film Interface

AbstractThe paper investigates the hydromagnetic stability theory of a thin electrically conductive fluid film flowing down along the outside surface of a vertical cylinder. The long-wave perturbation method is employed to solve for generalized kinematic equations with free film interface. The normal mode approach is used to compute the stability solution for the film flow. The modeling results display that the degree of instability in the film flow is further intensified by the lateral curvature of cylinder. This is somewhat different from that of the planar flow. It is also observed that by increasing the effect of the magnetic field and increasing the radius of the cylinder the film flow can become relatively more stable as traveling down along the vertical cylinder.

The Meniscus Instability of a Thin Liquid Film

1988 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Koguchi ◽  
M. Okada ◽  
K. Tamura
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Analytical Solution ◽  
Liquid Film ◽  
Tilt Angle ◽  
Stability Criterion ◽  
Thin Liquid Film ◽  
Normal Direction ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Maximum Amplification

This paper reports on the instability for the meniscus of a thin film of a very viscous liquid between two tilted plates, which are separated at a constant speed with a tilt angle in the normal direction of the plates. The disturbances on the meniscus moving with movement of the plates are examined experimentally and theoretically. The disturbances are started when the velocity of movement of the plates exceeds a critical one. The wavelength of the disturbances is measured by using a VTR. The instability of the meniscus is studied theoretically using the linearized perturbation method. A simple and complete analytical solution yields both a stability criterion and the wave number for a linear thickness geometry. These results compared with experiments for the instability show the validity of the stability criterion and the best agreement is obtained with the wave number of maximum amplification.

scholarly journals Dipolar stability in spherical simulations: The impact of an inner stable zone

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S354) ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Bonnie Zaire ◽  
Laurène Jouve
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Rossby Number ◽  
Constant Ratio ◽  
Stellar Rotation ◽  
Convective Motions ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Magnetic Field ◽  
Stable Zone

AbstractMagnetic fields vary in complexity for different stars. The stability of dipolar magnetic fields is known to depend on different quantities, e.g., the stellar rotation, the stratification, and the intensity of convective motions. Here, we study the dipolar stability in a system with an inner stable zone. We present preliminary results of dynamo simulations using the Rayleigh number as a control parameter. The stiffness of the stable zone is accordingly varied to keep a constant ratio of the Brunt-Väisälä frequency to the angular velocity. Similarly to the completely convective spherical shell, we find that a transition exists between a regime where the magnetic field is dipolar to a multipolar regime when the Rossby number is increased. The value of the Rossby number at the transition is very close to the one of the fully convective case.

Weakly Nonlinear Stability Analysis of a Thin Liquid Film With Condensation Effects During Spin Coating

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. K. Chen ◽  
M. C. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Film ◽  
Spin Coating ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Landau Equation ◽  
Thin Liquid Film ◽  
Kinematic Model ◽  
Circular Disk ◽  
Nonlinear Stability Analysis ◽  
Weakly Nonlinear ◽  
The Stability

This paper investigates the stability of a thin liquid film with condensation effects during spin coating. A generalized nonlinear kinematic model is derived by the long-wave perturbation method to represent the physical system. The weakly nonlinear dynamics of a film flow are studied by the multiple scales method. The Ginzburg–Landau equation is determined to discuss the necessary conditions of the various states of the critical flow states, namely, subcritical stability, subcritical instability, supercritical stability, and supercritical explosion. The study reveals that decreasing the rotation number and the radius of the rotating circular disk generally stabilizes the flow.

Hydromagnetic stability of a thin electrically conducting fluid film flowing down the outside surface of a long vertically aligned column

2009 ◽  
Vol 223 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
P-J Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Vertical Cylinder ◽  
Conducting Fluid ◽  
Fluid Film ◽  
Electrically Conducting ◽  
Free Film ◽  
Electrically Conducting Fluid ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
The Stability

This article considers the stability of a thin electrically conducting fluid film flowing down the outer surface of a long vertical cylinder in the presence of an applied magnetic field. Using the long-wave perturbation method to solve the generalized non-linear kinematic equations with free film interface, the normal mode approach is first used to compute the linear stability solution. The method of multiple scales is then used to obtain the weak non-linear dynamics. The results indicate that both subcritical instability and supercritical stability conditions are possible. The degree of instability in the film flow is intensified by the lateral curvature of the cylinder. The results also show that increasing the strength of the magnetic field tends to enhance the stability.

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