期刊
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
卷 814, 期 -, 页码 222-248出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2017.17
关键词
interfacial flows (free surface); low-Reynolds-number flows; thin films
资金
- NERC
- EPSRC [EP/L020564/1, EP/K041134/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K041134/1, EP/L020564/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [1318462] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K041134/1, EP/L020564/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The flow of two stratified viscous immiscible perfect dielectric fluids in a channel with topographically structured walls is investigated. The flow is driven by a streamwise pressure gradient and an electric field across the channel gap. This problem is explored in detail by deriving and studying a nonlinear evolution equation for the interface valid for large-amplitude long waves in the Stokes flow regime. For flat walls, the electrified flow is long-wave unstable with a critical cutoff wavenumber that increases linearly with the magnitude of the applied voltage. In the nonlinear regime, it is found that the presence of pressure-driven flow prevents electrostatically induced interface touchdown that has been observed previously-time-modulated nonlinear travelling waves emerge instead. When topography is present, linearly stable uniform flows become non-uniform spatially periodic steady states; a small-amplitude asymptotic theory is carried out and compared with computations. In the linearly unstable regime, intricate nonlinear structures emerge that depend, among other things, on the magnitude of the wall corrugations. For a low-amplitude sinusoidal boundary, time-modulated travelling waves are observed that are similar to those found for flat walls but are influenced by the geometry of the wall and slide over it without touching. The flow over a high-amplitude sinusoidal pattern is also examined in detail and it is found that for sufficiently large voltages the interface evolves to large-amplitude waves that span the channel and are subharmonic relative to the wall. A type of 'walking' motion emerges that causes the lower fluid to wash through the troughs and create strong vortices over the peaks of the lower boundary. Non-uniform steady states induced by the topography are calculated numerically for moderate and large values of the flow rate, and their stability is analysed using Floquet theory. The effect of large flow rates is also considered asymptotically to find solutions that compare very well with numerical computations.
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