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ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS, VOL 51
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 155-187Publisher
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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-122316-044531
Keywords
thin films; interfacial phenomena; electrohydrodynamic instabilities; long-wave theories
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1513232, EP/K041134/1, 1369223, EP/L020564/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K041134/1, EP/L020564/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The presence of electric fields in immiscible multifluid flows induces Maxwell stresses at sharp interfaces that can produce electrohydrodynamic phenomena of practical importance. Electric fields can be stabilizing or destabilizing depending on their strength and orientation. In microfluidics, fields can be used to drive systems out of equilibrium to produce hierarchical patterning, mixing, and phase separation. We describe nonlinear theories of electrohydrodynamic instabilities in immiscible multilayer flows in several geometries, including flows over or inside planar or topographically structured substrates and channels and flows in cylinders and cylindrical annuli. Matched asymptotic techniques are developed for two-and three-dimensional flows, and reduced-dimension nonlinear models are derived and studied. When all regions are slender, electrostatic extensions to lubrication or shallow-wave theories are derived. In the presence of nonslender layers, nonlocal terms emerge naturally to modify the evolution equations. Analysis and computations provide a plethora of dynamics, including nonlinear traveling waves, spatiotemporal chaos, and singularity formation. Direct numerical simulations are used to evaluate the models and go beyond their range of validity to quantify phenomena such as electric field-induced directed patterning, suppression of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, and electrostatically induced pumping in microchannels. Comparisons of theory and simulations with available experiments are included throughout.
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