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arXiv2013

Exact Solutions for an MHD Generalized Burgers fluid: Stokes' Second Problem

This paper offers the exact analytical solutions for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of an incompressible generalized Burgers fluid corresponding to the second problem of Stokes in the presence of the transverse magnetic field. Modified Darcy's law has been taken into account. The expression for the velocity field and associated tangential stress, presented as a sum of the steady-state and transient solutions, are obtained by means of the integral transforms. Moreover, several figures are plotted to investigate the effects of various emerging parameters on the velocity field. The obtained results show that the magnitude of the velocity and boundary layer thickness significantly reduce in the presence of magnetic field.

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arXiv2013

Proceedings of the 2013 UK National Conference on Geophysical, Astrophysical and Industrial Magnetohydrodynamics at Glasgow

This document presents an accurate record of the scientific programme of the 2013 UK National Conference on Geophysical, Astrophysical and Industrial Magnetohydrodynamics held on 23rd and 24th of May 2013 at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Glasgow. The abstracts of presented contributions are listed in chronological order and a full list of participants and their affiliations is included.

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arXiv2013

Sign cancellation and scaling in the vertical component of velocity and vorticity in rotating turbulence

We study sign changes and scaling laws in the Cartesian components of the velocity and vorticity of rotating turbulence, in the helicity, and in the components of vertically-averaged fields. Data for the analysis is provided by high-resolution direct numerical simulations of rotating turbulence with different forcing functions, with up to 1536^3 grid points, with Reynolds numbers between ~1100 and ~5100, and with moderate Rossby numbers between ~0.06 and ~8. When rotation is negligible, all Cartesian components of the velocity show similar scaling, in agreement with the expected isotropy of the flow. However, in the presence of rotation only the vertical components of the fields show clear scaling laws, with evidence of possible sign singularity in the limit of infinite Reynolds number. Horizontal components of the velocity are smooth and do not display rapid fluctuations for arbitrarily small scales. The vertical velocity and vorticity, as well as the vertically-averaged vertical velocity and vorticity, show the same scaling within error bars, in agreement with theories that predict that these quantities have the same dynamical equation for very strong rotation.

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arXiv2013

Speed of sound in liquids at high pressure

In this paper, a new general formula for the sound speed in adiabatic conditions ( S = const ) has been established. The sound speed depends on the mass density ρ (p,T ) and the internal energy per unit mass E(p,T ), both expressed as functions of the pressure p and the temperature T . This formula has been compared with experimental data on the example of triolein over the pressure range up to 450 MPa. For experimental data, phenomenological approximate formulas have been proposed. Those formulas have two versions, depending on the 2 and 3 parameters. Both versions have been developed with the help of the new expression (Eq.8) for the sound speed. The explicit form of both approximate curves can be regarded as the result of purely phenomenological modeling. However, in this paper, these new analytical expressions have been obtained by applying the heuristic procedure described in Appendix.

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arXiv2013

A critique of recent theories of spin half quantum plasmas

In this Letter certain fundamental physics issues relating to recent theories of so-called `spin quantum plasmas' are examined. It is shown that the derivations and some of the results obtained in these theories contradict well-established principles of quantum mechanics, especially in their treatment of fermions and spin. The analysis presented suggests that the aforementioned theories do not apply for any range of temperatures at the stated densities and furthermore fail to make any experimentally accessible and testable predictions.

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arXiv2014

Non-Newtonian Rheology in Blood Circulation

Blood is a complex suspension that demonstrates several non-Newtonian rheological characteristics such as deformation-rate dependency, viscoelasticity and yield stress. In this paper we outline some issues related to the non-Newtonian effects in blood circulation system and present modeling approaches based mostly on the past work in this field.

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arXiv2013

The effect of gravity on the stability of an evaporating dichloromethane liquid film

Zero gravity evaporation of a Dicholoromethane (DCM) liquid film is explored. The resulting film dynamics are presented and a criterion for stable films is described based on the long wave theory. It is concluded that films subject to long wave instabilities shows the appearance of the mode of maximum growth rate at rupture, irrespective of the initial condition or domain size conditions. Films stable in Earth's gravity are destabilized in zero gravity.

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arXiv2013

Investigation of the transfer and dissipation of energy in isotropic turbulence

A parallel pseudospectral code for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of isotropic turbulence has been developed. The code has been extensively benchmarked using established results from literature. The code has been used to conduct a series of runs for freely-decaying turbulence. We explore the use of power-law decay of the total energy to determine an evolved time and compare with the use of dynamic quantities such as the peak dissipation rate, maximum transport power and velocity derivative skewness. Stationary turbulence has also been investigated, where we ensure that the energy input rate remains constant for all runs. We present results for Reynolds numbers up to Rλ = 335 on a 1024^3 lattice. An exploitation of the pseudospectral technique is used to calculate second and third-order structure functions from the energy and transfer spectra, with a comparison presented to the real-space calculation. An alternative to ESS is discussed, with the second-order exponent found to approach 2/3. The dissipation anomaly is considered for forced and free-decay. The Kármán-Howarth equation (KHE) is studied and a derivation of a new work term presented. The balance of energy represented by the KHE is then investigated. Based on the KHE, we develop a model for the behaviour of the dimensionless dissipation coefficient that predicts Cε = Cε(\infty) + C_L/R_L, with Cε(\infty) = 0.47 and C_L = 19.1 obtained from DNS data. Theoretical methods based on RG and statistical closures are still being developed to study turbulence. The dynamic RG procedure used by Forster, Nelson and Stephen (FNS) is considered in some detail and a disagreement in the literature is resolved here. The application of statistical closure and renormalized perturbation theory is discussed and a new two-time model probability density functional presented.

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arXiv2013

On Two Kinds of Differential Operators on General Smooth Surfaces

Two kinds of differential operators that can be generally defined on an arbitrary smooth surface in a finite dimensional Euclid space are studied, one is termed as surface gradient and the other one as Levi-Civita gradient. The surface gradient operator is originated from the differentiability of a tensor field defined on the surface. Some integral and differential identities have been theoretically studied that play the important role in the studies on continuous mediums whose geometrical configurations can be taken as surfaces and on interactions between fluids and deformable boundaries. The definition of Levi-Civita gradient is based on Levi-Civita connections generally defined on Riemann manifolds. It can be used to set up some differential identities in the intrinsic/coordiantes-independent form that play the essential role in the theory of vorticity dynamics for two dimensional flows on general fixed smooth surfaces.

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arXiv2013

Moving-Frame Approach to Nonlinear Internal Waves in Oceans

In this article, we introduce a moving-frame approach to the geophysical equation of two-dimensional uniformly stratified rotational fluid in oceans and find a family of exact solutions containing ten arbitrary parameter functions.

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arXiv2013

Aerodynamics of a rigid curved kite wing

A preliminary numerical study on the aerodynamics of a kite wing for high altitude wind power generators is proposed. Tethered kites are a key element of an innovative wind energy technology, which aims to capture energy from the wind at higher altitudes than conventional wind towers. We present the results obtained from three-dimensional finite volume numerical simulations of the steady air flow past a three-dimensional curved rectangular kite wing (aspect ratio equal to 3.2, Reynolds number equal to 3x10^6). Two angles of incidence -- a standard incidence for the flight of a tethered airfoil (6°) and an incidence close to the stall (18°) -- were considered. The simulations were performed by solving the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes flow model using the industrial STAR-CCM+ code. The overall aerodynamic characteristics of the kite wing were determined and compared to the aerodynamic characteristics of the flat rectangular non twisted wing with an identical aspect ratio and section (Clark Y profile). The boundary layer of both the curved and the flat wings was considered to be turbulent throughout. It was observed that the curvature induces only a mild deterioration of the aerodynamics properties. Pressure distributions around different sections along the span are also presented, together with isolines of the average pressure and kinetic energy fields at a few sections across the wing and the wake. Our results indicate that the curvature induces a slower spatial decay of the vorticity in the wake, and in particular, inside the wing tip vortices.

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arXiv2013

Lateral migration of living cells in inertial microfluidic systems explored by fully three-dimensional numerical simulation

The effects of cell size and deformability on the lateral migration and deformation of living cells flowing through a rectangular microchannel has been numerically investigated and compared with the inertial-microfluidics data on detection and separation of cells. The results of this work indicate that the cells move closer to the centerline if they are bigger and/or more deformable and that their equilibrium position is largely determined by the solvent (cytosol) viscosity, which is much less than the polymer (cytoskeleton) viscosity measured in most rheological systems. Simulations also suggest that decreasing channel dimensions leads to larger differences in equilibrium position for particles of different viscoelastic properties, giving design guidance for the next generation of microfluidic cell separation chips.

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arXiv2013

An extended SMLD approach for presumed probability density function in flamelet combustion model

This paper provides an extension of the standard flamelet progress variable (FPV) approach for turbulent combustion, applying the statistically most likely distribution (SMLD) framework to the joint PDF of the mixture fraction, Z, and the progress variable, C. In this way one does not need to make any assumption about the statistical correlation between Z and C and about the behaviour of the mixture fraction, as required in previous FPV models. In fact, for state-of-the-art models, with the assumption of very-fast-chemistry,Z is widely accepted to behave as a passive scalar characterized by a $β$-distribution function. Instead, the model proposed here, evaluates the most probable joint distribution of Z and C without any assumption on their behaviour and provides an effective tool to verify the adequateness of widely used hypotheses, such as their statistical independence. The model is validated versus three well-known test cases, namely, the Sandia flames. The results are compared with those obtained by the standard FPV approach, analysing the role of the PDF functional form on turbulent combustion simulations.

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arXiv2013

Surfactant Spreading on a Thin Liquid Film: Reconciling Models and Experiments

The spreading dynamics of surfactant molecules on a thin fluid layer is of both fundamental and practical interest. A mathematical model formulated by Gaver and Grotberg 1990 describing the spreading of a single layer of insoluble surfactant has become widely accepted, and several experiments on axisymmetric spreading have confirmed its predictions for both the height profile of the free surface and the spreading exponent (the radius of the circular area covered by surfactant grows as t^{1/4}). However, these prior experiments have primarily utilized surfactant quantities exceeding (sometimes far exceeding) a monolayer. In this paper, we report that this regime is characterized by a mismatch between the timescales of the experiment and model, and additionally find that the spatial distribution of surfactant molecules differs substantially from the model prediction. For experiments performed in the monolayer regime for which the model was developed, the surfactant layer is observed to have a spreading exponent of less than 1/10, far below the predicted value, and the surfactant distribution is also in disagreement. These findings suggest that the model is inadequate for describing the spreading of insoluble surfactants on thin fluid layers.

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arXiv2014

Inviscid damping and the asymptotic stability of planar shear flows in the 2D Euler equations

We prove asymptotic stability of shear flows close to the planar Couette flow in the 2D inviscid Euler equations on $\Torus \times \Real$. That is, given an initial perturbation of the Couette flow small in a suitable regularity class, specifically Gevrey space of class smaller than 2, the velocity converges strongly in L^2 to a shear flow which is also close to the Couette flow. The vorticity is asymptotically driven to small scales by a linear evolution and weakly converges as $t \rightarrow \pm\infty$. The strong convergence of the velocity field is sometimes referred to as inviscid damping, due to the relationship with Landau damping in the Vlasov equations. This convergence was formally derived at the linear level by Kelvin in 1887 and it occurs at an algebraic rate first computed by Orr in 1907; our work appears to be the first rigorous confirmation of this behavior on the nonlinear level.

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arXiv2013

Transformation of deep-water methane bubbles into hydrate

The paper is dedicated to the mechanics of the methane bubbles in the gas hydrate stability zone of the basin. Transformation of deep-water methane bubbles into solid hydrate was investigated in Lake Baikal in situ. Released from the bottom methane bubbles were caught by different traps with transparent walls. It was observed that when bubbles entered into internal space of the trap, the bubbles could be transformed into two different solid hydrate structures depending on ambient conditions. The first structure is hydrate granular matter consisted of solid fragments with sizes of order of 1 mm. The second structure is high porous solid foam consisted of solid bubbles with sizes of order of 5 mm. The formed granular matter did not change during trap lifting up to top border of gas hydrate stability zone, whereas free methane intensively released from solid foam sample during it lifting. It was concluded that the decrease of the depth of bubble sampling and the decrease of the bubble flux rate assist to formation of hydrate granular matter, whereas increase of the depth of bubble sampling and growth of bubble flux rate assist to conversation of bubbles into high porous solid hydrate foam.

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arXiv2013

Spontaneous oscillations in simple fluid networks

Nonlinear phenomena including multiple equilibria and spontaneous oscillations are common in fluid networks containing either multiple phases or constituent flows. In many systems, such behavior might be attributed to the complicated geometry of the network, the complex rheology of the constituent fluids, or, in the case of microvascular blood flow, biological control. In this paper we investigate two examples of a simple three-node fluid network containing two miscible Newtonian fluids of differing viscosities, the first modeling microvascular blood flow and the second modeling stratified laminar flow. We use a combination of analytic and numerical techniques to identify and track saddle-node and Hopf bifurcations through the large parameter space. In both models, we document sustained spontaneous oscillations and, for an experimentally relevant example of parameter analysis, investigate the sensitivity of these oscillations to changes in the viscosity contrast between the constituent fluids and the inlet flow rates. For the case of stratified laminar flow, we detail a physically realizable set of network parameters that exhibit rich dynamics. The tools and results developed here are general and could be applied to other physical systems.

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arXiv2013

Squeeze flow of a viscoplastic Bingham medium: an asymptotic solution

We obtain an asymptotic solution for the squeeze flow of a viscoplastic medium. The standard lubrication-style expansions of the problem predict plug speed which varies slowly in the principal flow direction. This variation implies that the plug region cannot be truly unyielded. Our solution shows that this region is a pseudo-plug region in which the leading order equation predict a plug, but really it is weakly yielded at higher order.

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