Developed liquid film passing a smoothed and wedge-shaped trailing edge: small-scale analysis and the `teapot effect' at large Reynolds numbers

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.612zbMATH Open1496.76021arXiv2011.12168OpenAlexW3187861247MaRDI QIDQ3380345FDOQ3380345

Authors: B. Scheichl, G. Pasias, Rowena G. A. Bowles 

Publication date: 28 September 2021

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

Abstract: Recently, the authors considered a thin steady developed viscous liquid wall jet passing the sharp trailing edge of a horizontally aligned flat plate under surface tension and the weak action of gravity acting vertically in the asymptotic slender-layer limit (J. Fluid Mech. 850, pp. 924--953, 2018). We revisit the capillarity-driven short-scale viscous--inviscid interaction, on account of the inherent upstream influence, immediately downstream of the edge and scrutinise flow detachment on all smaller scales. We adhere to the assumption of a Froude number so large that choking at the plate edge is insignificant but envisage the variation of the relevant Weber number of O(1). The aspect in the main focus, tackled essentially analytically, is the continuation of the structure of the flow towards scales much smaller then the interactive ones and where it no longer can be treated as slender. As a remarkable phenomenon, this analysis predicts harmonic capillary ripples of Rayleigh type, prevalent on the free surface upstream of the trailing edge. They exhibit an increase of both the wavelength and amplitude as the characteristic Weber number decreases. Finally, the theory clarifies the actual detachment process, unprecedented in the rational theories of flow separation. At this stage, the wetting properties of the fluid and the microscopically wedge-shaped edge, viewed as infinitely thin on the larger scales, come into play. As this geometry typically models the exit of a spout, the predicted wetting of the wedge is related to what in the literature is referred to as the so-called teapot effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12168

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary layerthin filmfree surface flowflow separationasymptotic slender-layer limitcapillarity-driven short-scale viscous-inviscid interactionharmonic capillary ripple

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Thin fluid films (76A20) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

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