Linear stability analysis of capillary instabilities for concentric cylindrical shells

DOI10.1017/JFM.2011.260MaRDI QIDQ2891878zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors X. Liang, D. S. Deng, Jean-Christophe Nave, Steven G. Johnson

Publication date 15 June 2012

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5139

zbMATH Keywords

instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

Abstract: Motivated by complex multi-fluid geometries currently being explored in fibre-device manufacturing, we study capillary instabilities in concentric cylindrical flows of $N$ fluids with arbitrary viscosities, thicknesses, densities, and surface tensions in both the Stokes regime and for the full Navier--Stokes problem. Generalizing previous work by Tomotika (N=2), Stone & Brenner (N=3, equal viscosities) and others, we present a full linear stability analysis of the growth modes and rates, reducing the system to a linear generalized eigenproblem in the Stokes case. Furthermore, we demonstrate by Plateau-style geometrical arguments that only axisymmetric instabilities need be considered. We show that the N=3 case is already sufficient to obtain several interesting phenomena: limiting cases of thin shells or low shell viscosity that reduce to N=2 problems, and a system with competing breakup processes at very different length scales. The latter is demonstrated with full 3-dimensional Stokes-flow simulations. Many $N>3$ cases remain to be explored, and as a first step we discuss two illustrative $Noinfty$ cases, an alternating-layer structure and a geometry with a continuously varying viscosity.

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