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The electrostatically forced Faraday instability: theory and experiments

Journal

JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 862, Issue -, Pages 696-731

Publisher

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2018.940

Keywords

Faraday waves; parametric instability; pattern formation

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation [DGE-1315138]
  2. NSF [0968313, EAPSI 1514711]
  3. CASIS [NNH11CD70A]
  4. NASA [NNX17AL27G]
  5. Space Florida via Florida Space Grant Consortium
  6. JSPS KAKENHI grant [JP15H03925]

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The onset of interfacial instability in two-fluid systems using a viscous, leaky dielectric model is studied. The instability arises as a result of resonance between the parametric frequency of an imposed electric field and the system's natural frequency. In addition to a rigorous model that uses Floquet instability analysis, where both viscous and charge effects are considered, this study also provides convincing validating experiments. In other results, it is shown that (a) the imposition of a periodic electrostatic potential acts to counter gravity and this countering effect becomes more effective if a DC voltage is also added, (b) a critical DC voltage exists at which the interface becomes unstable such that no parametric frequency is required to completely destabilize the interface and (c) the leaky dielectric model approaches a model for a perfect dielectric/perfect conductor pair as the conductivity ratio becomes large. It is also shown via experiments that parametric resonant instability using electrostatic forcing may be reliably used to estimate interfacial tension to sufficient accuracy.

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