The problem of forced convection along an isothermal, constantly moving plate is a classical problem of fluid mechanics that has been solved for the first time in 1961 by Sakiadis (1961). Thereafter, many solutions have been obtained for different aspects of this class of boundary layer problems. Solutions have been appeared including mass transfer, varying plate velocity, varying plate temperature, fluid injection and fluid suction at the plate. The work by Hassanien (1997) belongs to the above class of problems, including a linearly varying velocity and the variation of fluid viscosity with temperature. The author obtained similarity solutions considering that viscosity varies as an inverse function of temperature. However, the Prandtl number, which is a function of viscosity, has been considered constant across the boundary layer. It has been already confirmed in the literature that the assumption of constant Prandtl number leads to unrealistic results (Pantokratoras, 2004, 2005). The objective of the present paper is to obtain results considering both viscosity and Prandtl number variable across the boundary layer. The differences of the two methods are very large in some cases.
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Comments on nonlinear viscosity and Grad's moment method
结果表明，B。C. Eu [Phys.Rev.E65，031202（2002）]以及Uribe和Garcia-Colin [Phys.Rev.E60，4052（1999）]更早提出的方法与质量、动量和能量的精确守恒定律不一致。这种不一致性并不在于假定的流动的对称性，而在于平稳性假设。考虑了非定常问题，并从麦克斯韦分子的玻尔兹曼方程给出了它的解。
We give the first correction to the suspension viscosity due to fluid elasticity for a dilute suspension of spheres in a viscoelastic medium. Our perturbation theory is valid to $O(ϕ\mathrm{Wi}^2)$ in the Weissenberg number $\mathrm{Wi}=\dotγλ$, where $\dotγ$ is the typical magnitude of the suspension velocity gradient, and $λ$ is the relaxation time of the viscoelastic fluid. For shear flow we find that the suspension shear-thickens due to elastic stretching in strain hot spots near the particle, despite the fact that the stress inside the particles decreases relative to the Newtonian case. W…
Comment on "Three papers published by Subhas Abel and his co-workers in International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics and International Journal of Thermal Sciences
When injected through a contraction, high molecular weight polymer solutions exhibit a sharp increase of apparent viscosity which originates from stretching polymer chains above a critical extension rate. This chain stretching can also induce polymer scission, which then decreases the extensional viscosity. In practice, the two phenomena are difficult to separate. Moreover, these phenomena are often observed in situation where flow instabilities appear. In order to disentangle the two effects we have measured the pressure-flux relation for polymer solutions passing through a hyperbolic contrac…
The cavitation flow of linear-polymer solutions around a cylinder is studied by performing a large-scale molecular dynamics simulation. The addition of polymer chains remarkably suppresses the cavitation. The polymers are stretched into a linear shape near the cylinder and entrained in the vortex behind the cylinder. As the polymers stretch, the elongational viscosity increases, which suppresses the vortex formation. Furthermore, the polymers exhibit an entropic elasticity owing to the stretching. This elastic energy increases the local temperature, which inhibits the cavitation inception. The…
The influence of the underlying flow topology on the shape and size of sub-Kolmogorov droplets dispersed in a turbulent flow is of considerable interest in many industrial and scientific applications. In this work we study the deformation and orientation statistics of sub-Kolmogorov droplets dispersed into a turbulent Taylor-Couette flow. Along with Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the carrier phase and Lagrangian tracking of the dispersed droplets, we solve a phenomenological equation proposed by Maffettone and Minale (\emph{J. Fluid Mech.} 78, 227-241 (1998)) to track the shape evolutio…
Recently, the Nash-style convex integration has been becoming the main scheme for the mathematical study of turbulence, and the main building block of it has been either Beltrami flow (finite mode) or Mikado flow (compactly supported in the physical side). On the other hand, in physics, it is observed that turbulence is composed of a hierarchy of scale-by-scale vortex stretching. Thus our mathematical motivation in this study is to find another type of building blocks accompanied by vortex stretching and scale locality (possibly finitely many Fourier modes). In this paper, we give a complete l…
Many biological materials such as cervical mucus and collagen gel possess a fibrous micro-structure. This micro-structure affects the emergent mechanical properties of the material, and hence the functional behaviour of the system. We consider the canonical problem of stretching a thin sheet of transversely-isotropic viscous fluid as a simplified version of the spinnbarkeit test for cervical mucus. We propose a novel solution to the model constructed by Green & Friedman by manipulating the model to a form amenable to arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian techniques. The system of equations, reduced by…
We study the secondary time-averaged flow (streaming) generated by an oscillating cylinder immersed within a fluid, under high amplitude forcing so that inertial effects are significant. This streaming is decomposed into a viscous boundary layer flow where vorticity is created, and an outer flow of larger size. We operate under conditions of relatively low viscosity, so that the boundary layer is smaller than the object diameter. While for low Keulegan-Carpenter (KC) number (small enough amplitude), the size of the outer flow is typically that of the object, here we show that at large enough f…
The study of viscous fluid flow coupled with rigid or deformable solids has many applications in biological and engineering problems, e.g., blood cell transport, drug delivery, and particulate flow. We developed a partitioned approach to solve this coupled Multiphysics problem. The fluid motion was solved by Palabos (Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Solver), while the solid displacement and deformation was simulated by LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator). The coupling was achieved through the immersed boundary method (IBM). The code modeled both rigid and deformable so…
Droplet deposition after impact on superhydrophobic surfaces has been an important area of study in recent years due to its potential application in reduction of pesticides usage. Minute amounts of long chain polymers added to water has been known to arrest the droplet rebound effect on superhydrophobic surfaces. Previous studies have attributed different reasons like extensional viscosity, dominance of elastic stresses or slowing down of contact line in retraction phase due to stretching of polymer chains. The present study attempts to unravel the existence of critical criteria of polymer con…
