A numerical study on reaction-induced radial fingering instability

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.963MaRDI QIDQ4611583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vandita Sharma, Satyajit Pramanik, Ching-Yao Chen, Manoranjan Mishra

Publication date 21 January 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02631

zbMATH Keywords

fingering instabilitylaminar reacting flowsporous media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

Abstract: The dynamics of $A+BightarrowC$ fronts is analyzed numerically in a radial geometry. We are interested to understand miscible fingering instabilities when the simple chemical reaction changes the viscosity of the fluid locally and a non-monotonic viscosity profile with a global maximum or minimum is formed. We consider viscosity-matched reactants $A$ and $B$ generating a product $C$ having different viscosity than the reactants. Depending on the effect of $C$ on the viscosity relative to the reactants, different viscous fingering (VF) patterns are captured which are in good qualitative agreement with the existing radial experiments. We have found that for a given chemical reaction rate, an unfavourable viscosity contrast is not always sufficient to trigger the instability. For every fixed $Pe$, these effects of chemical reaction on VF are summarized in the $Da-R_c$ parameter space that exhibits a stable region separating two unstable regions corresponding to the cases of more and less viscous product. Fixing $Pe$, we determine $Da$-dependent critical log-mobility ratios $R_c^{+}$ and $R_c^{-}$ such that no VF is observable whenever $R_c^{-}leq{R}_{c}leq{R}_c^{+}$. The effect of geometry is observable on the onset of instability, where we obtain significant differences from existing results in the rectilinear geometry.

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