Numerical studies of two-dimensional Faraday oscillations of inviscid fluids (Q4489283)

The authors analyze with modern mathematical instruments the old problem of Faraday oscillations of inviscid fluids in the two-dimensional case. These waves appear at the interface of two fluids with different densities, and are responsible for monochromatic oscillations in gravitational field. The mathematical problem is the following: solve the partial differential equations \(\partial u_\pm/ \partial t+u_\pm \nabla u_\pm= -\nabla p_\pm/ \rho_\pm+g-e_y f\cos(\omega t)+\zeta u_\pm\) and \(\nabla u_\pm=0\), where \(u\) is the fluid velocity, \(p\) is the pressure, \(g\) is the gravity acceleration, \(e_y\) is the unit vector along the vertical axis, the subscripts \(+\) or \(-\) denote the upper and the lower fluid, \(f\) is the constant amplitude of acceleration, \(\omega\) is the angular frequency of oscillations, \(\rho_\pm\) are the fluid densities, and \(\zeta\) is a phenomenological damping coefficient which describes the effects of viscosity. The authors study the above mathematical problem numerically by means of two different methods: the first one is based on the boundary integral formulation for the potential flow when the density of the upper fluid is negligible compared to the density of the lower fluid, and the second method is based on the use of vortex sheets in the case when the densities of two fluids are comparable. The numerical results are presented in many plots and diagrams, are discussed, commented and compared with the corresponding results obtained by other authors. The paper provides a good information for those interested in the problem, and contains a large bibliography (52 titles).