From a simple analysis of particle orbits and fluid flows in presence or not of dissipation, some connections between apparently uncorrelated research areas are made. The main results point out for a deep relation between quantization of classical conservative systems and the dissipative version of these systems.
Comment on "Flow of temperature-dependent viscous fluid between parallel heated walls: Exact analytical solutions in the presence of viscous dissipation", by K.S. Adegbie and F.I. Alao
The process of one fluid pushing another is universally common while involving complex interfacial instabilities. Particularly, occurring in a myriad of natural and industrial processes, wavy fingering patterns frequently emerge when a less viscous fluid pushes another more viscous one, such as water invading oil, in a porous medium. Such finger-shaped interfaces producing partial displacement significantly affect the efficiency of numerous applications, for example, chromatography, printing devices, coating flows, oil-well cementing, as well as large-scale technologies of groundwater and enha…
In this work, we provide two novel approaches to show that incompressible fluid flow in a finite domain contains at most a finite number vortices. We use a recently developed geometric theory of incompressible viscous flows along with an existing mathematical analysis concept to establish the finiteness. We also offer a second proof of finiteness by roping in the Kolmogorov's length scale criterion in conjunction with the notion of diametric disks.
Vortex shedding by a swimming sphere in a viscous incompressible fluid is studied for surface modulation characterized by a superposition of dipolar and quadrupolar, as well as for quadrupolar and octupolar displacements, varying harmonically in time. The time-dependent swimming velocity and the flow velocity are calculated to second order in the amplitude of surface modulation for both models. The models are also useful for the discussion of bird flight.
In this paper the small-amplitude motion of multiple superposed viscous fluids is studied as a linearized initial-value problem. The analysis results in a closed set of equations for the Laplace transformed amplitudes of the interfaces that can be inverted numerically. The derived equations also contain the general normal mode equations, which can be used to determine the asymptotic growth-rates of the systems directly. After derivation, the equations are used to study two different problems involving three fluid layer. The first problem is the effect of initial phase difference on the develop…
A rest fluid displaced by a less viscous fluid in a porous medium triggers the so-called Saffman-Taylor instability at their contact front and hence forms complicated finger-like patterns. When the two fluids are miscible, the surface tension at their contact front vanishes, leaving the variation in viscosity dominant the contribution to the instability. The phenomena, named viscous fingering, can be studied by the analogy of a single-phase flow in the Hele-Shaw cell, a quasi-two-dimensional rectilinear plane. Viscous fingering produces complex geometrical patterns. They are important not only…
Parametrically excited standing waves are observed on a cylindrical fluid filament. These are the cylindrical analog of Faraday instability in a flat surface or spherical droplet. Using the Floquet technique, linear stability analysis has been investigated on a viscous cylindrical fluid surface, which is subjected to a time-periodic radial acceleration. Viscosity has a significant impact on the critical forcing amplitude as well as the dispersion relation of the non-axis symmetric patterns. The effect of viscosity on onset parameters of the pattern with azimuthal wavenumber, $m=1$, has shown d…
We consider small oscillations of micro-particles and gaseous bubbles in viscous fluid around equilibrium states under the action of a sinusoidal external force. Exact solutions to the governing integro-differential equations containing both Stokes and memory-integral drag forces are obtained. The main aim of this study is to clarify the influence of the memory-integral drag force on the resonance characteristics of oscillating particles or gaseous bubbles in a viscous fluid at small Reynolds numbers. The resonant curves (amplitude versus frequency of external force), as well as phase-frequenc…
The equilibrium state of a flexible fiber settling in a viscous fluid is examined using a combination of macroscopic experiments, numerical simulations and scaling arguments. We identify three regimes having different signatures on this equilibrium configuration of the elastic filament: weak and large deformation regimes wherein the drag is proportional to the settling velocity as expected in Stokes flow and an intermediate elastic reconfiguration regime where the filament deforms to adopt a shape with a smaller drag which is no longer linearly proportional to the velocity.
From the principle of least action the equation of motion for viscous compressible and charged fluid is derived. The viscosity effect is described by the 4-potential of the energy dissipation field, dissipation tensor and dissipation stress-energy tensor. In the weak field limit it is shown that the obtained equation is equivalent to the Navier-Stokes equation. The equation for the power of the kinetic energy loss is provided, the equation of motion is integrated, and the dependence of the velocity magnitude is determined. A complete set of equations is presented, which suffices to solve the p…
The case of a rotating object traveling through viscous fluid appears in many phenomena like the banana ball and missile movement. In this work, we build a model to predict the trajectory of such rotating objects with near-cylinder geometry. The analytical expression of Magnus force is given and a wind tunnel experiment is carried out, which shows the Magnus force is well proportional to the product of angular velocity and centroid velocity. The trajectory prediction is consistent with the trajectory record experiment of Magnus glider, which implies the validity and robustness of this model.
In the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations, the viscous fluid in incompressible flow is modelled as a homogeneous and dense assemblage of constituent "fluid particles" with viscous stress proportional to rate of strain. The crucial concept of fluid flow is the velocity of the particle that is accelerated by the pressure and viscous interaction around it. In this paper, by virtue of the alternative constituent "micro-finite element", we introduce a set of new intrinsic quantities, called the vortex fields, to characterise the relative orientation between elements and the feature of micro-eddi…
The swimming of a deformable planar slab in a viscous incompressible fluid is studied on the basis of the Navier-Stokes equations. A continuum of plane wave displacements, symmetric on both sides of the slab and characterized by a polarization angle, allows optimization of the swimming efficiency with respect to polarization. The mean swimming velocity and mean rate of dissipation are calculated to second order in the amplitude of the stroke. The optimum efficiency depends on the ratio of viscosity and mass density of the fluid. For high viscosity a stroke is found with significantly higher ef…
Swimming of a sphere in a viscous incompressible fluid is studied on the basis of the Navier-Stokes equations for wave-type distortions of the spherical shape. At sizable values of the dimensionless scale number the mean swimming velocity is the result of a delicate balance between the net time-averaged flow generated directly by the surface distortions and the flow generated by the mean Reynolds force density. Depending on the stroke, this can lead to a surprising dependence of the mean swimming velocity on the kinematic viscosity of the fluid. The net flow pattern is calculated as a function…
In a recent paper by Casado-Pascual [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{97}, 032219 (2018)], directed motion of a sphere immersed in a viscous fluid and subjected to zero-average biharmonic forces is studied. The author explains the dependence on the relative amplitude of the two harmonic components of the average terminal velocity from the perspective of a general formalism. In this Comment, this explanation is shown to be in general incorrect, while the theory of ratchet universality together with the vibrational mechanics approach provide a satisfactory explanation of major aspects of the observed phenom…
We model the flow of a bi-viscous non-Newtonian fluid in a porous medium by a square lattice where the links obey a piece-wise linear constitutive equation. We find numerically that the flow regime where the network transitions from all links behaving according to the first linear part of the constitutive equation to all links behaving according to the second linear part of the constitutive equation, is characterized by a critical point. We measure two critical exponents associated with this critical point, one of the being the correlation length exponent. We find that both critical exponents …
Collinear velocity relaxation of two spheres immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid is studied on the basis of an approximate expression for the retarded hydrodynamic interaction. After a sudden impulse applied to one sphere, the other one instantaneously starts to move as well, with amplitude determined by the added mass effect. The velocities of both spheres eventually decay with a t^{-3/2} long-time tail, but the relative velocity decays with a t^{-5/2} long-time tail. The three relaxation functions are approximated by simple expressions involving only a small number of poles in the com…
Hadamard-Papapetrou method of field discontinuities is here employed in order to determine the effective metric that describes the propagation of acoustic perturbations in isentropic fluids. It is shown that, when dissipative effects are present, small perturbations in fastly moving fluids have a natural description in terms of an effective acoustic geometry. As an application of our results, a model for an acoustic black hole in viscous fluid is investigated.
Viscous fingering (VF) is an interfacial instability that occurs in a narrow confinement or porous medium when a less-viscous fluid pushes a more viscous one, producing finger-like patterns. Controlling the VF instability is essential to enhance the efficiency of various technological applications. However, the control of VF instability has been challenging and so far focused on simple Newtonian fluids of constant viscosity. Here, we extend to complex yield-stress fluids and examine the controlling feasibility by carrying out a linear stability analysis using a radial cell with a converging ga…
Being a major limiting factor for the efficiency of various technologies, such as Enhanced Oil Recovery, the viscous fingering (or Saffman--Taylor) instability has been extensively studied, especially for simple Newtonian fluids. Here, we experimentally and theoretically demonstrate a vital control of inhibiting the viscous fingering instability for complex (yield-stress) fluids to generate a complete sweep with a flat interface. Using a rectangular tapered cell, we first experimentally show the feasibility of controlling the primary fingering instability of a complex yield-stress fluid when p…
We derive and study a new hyperbolic two-phase model of a porous deformable medium saturated by a viscous fluid. The governing equations of the model are derived in the framework of Symmetric Hyperbolic Thermodynamically Compatible (SHTC) systems and by generalizing the unified hyperbolic model of continuum fluid and solid mechanics. Similarly to the unified model, the presented model takes into account the viscosity of the saturating fluid through a hyperbolic reformulation. The model accounts for such dissipative mechanisms as interfacial friction and viscous dissipation of the saturated flu…
By taking advantage of laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV), we explore the existence of discrete wave cascades on fluid interfaces excited upon monochromatic excitation. We study viscous liquids of variable capillarity spanning a broad range of frictional stresses. The existence of an inertial regime of weak surface wave turbulence (weak-SWT) has been pointed out as a cascade of discrete modes with amplitudes compatible with universal Kolmogorov`s scaling. The transit from weak to strong surface turbulence has been explored with this tool revealing the importance of inertia over surface forces to …
Although the Navier-Stokes equation (NSE) is derived under angular-momentum conservation (AMC), numerical simulation methods often lack it. Here, we reveal that AMC violations result from implementation of the degenerated viscous terms of NSE. To maintain AMC, these degenerated terms must be separately integrated in accordance with their stress origins. As observed in particle-based hydrodynamics methods, the violation causes artificial rotations in multi-component fluids with different viscosities. At the interface between two fluids or with a mobile solid object, AMC must be satisfied, where…
Due to the reversibility of viscous flow it is not expected to obtain a fluidic rectifier simply from geometrical asymmetry without any moving mechanical parts. Here, we found a counter example by using spatial asymmetry combined with electric field to inject memory effects that render the flow irreversible. This stems from the strong dependency of the electrorheological (ER) fluid particle chaining on the flow direction. A funnel-shaped microfluidic rectifier with ER fluid has been shown to be easily and rapidly tuned via the applied electric field to achieve more than an order of magnitude r…
It is shown that the helicity of three dimensional viscous incompressible flow can be identified with the overall linking of the fluid's initial vorticity to the expectation of a stochastic mean field limit. The relevant mean field limit is obtained by following the Lagrangian paths in the stochastic Hamiltonian interacting particle system of [S. Hochgerner, Proc. R. Soc. A 474:20180178].
We consider a model of a third grade viscous Korteweg--type fluid in three space dimensions, and apply the extended Liu procedure in order to explicitly solve the constraints imposed by the entropy principle on the non--local constitutive relations. We detail the algorithm we use, and are able to characterize the material functions involved in the constitutive equations. In a natural way, the application of the extended Liu procedure allows us to recover an extra term in the entropy flux, preserving all the features of third grade viscous Korteweg--type fluids. Moreover, a further constraint, …
We present a novel computational modeling framework to numerically investigate fluid-structure interaction in viscous fluids using the phase field embedding method. Each rigid body or elastic structure immersed in the incompressible viscous fluid matrix, grossly referred to as the particle in this paper, is identified by a volume preserving phase field. The motion of the particle is driven by the fluid velocity in the matrix for passive particles or combined with its self-propelling velocity for active particles. The excluded volume effect between a pair of particles or between a particle and …
Dissipation can be represented in Hamiltonian mechanics in an extended phase space as a symplectic process. The method uses an auxiliary variable which represents the excitation of unresolved dynamics and a Hamiltonian for the interaction between the resolved dynamics and the auxiliary variable. This method is applied to viscous dissipation (including hyper-viscosity) in a two-dimensional fluid, for which the dynamics is non-canonical. We derive a metriplectic representation and suggest a measure for the entropy of the system.
Ultra-pure conductors may exhibit hydrodynamic transport where the collective motion of charge carriers resembles the flow of a viscous fluid. In a confined geometry (e.g., in ultra-high quality nanostructures) the electronic fluid assumes a Poiseuille-like flow. Applying an external magnetic field tends to diminish viscous effects leading to large negative magnetoresistance. In two-component systems near charge neutrality the hydrodynamic flow of charge carriers is strongly affected by the mutual friction between the two constituents. At low fields, the magnetoresistance is negative, however …