Weakly nonlinear analysis of the viscoelastic instability in channel flow for finite and vanishing Reynolds numbers

DOI10.1017/JFM.2022.222zbMATH Open1486.76031arXiv2107.06191OpenAlexW3178855114MaRDI QIDQ5070568FDOQ5070568

Authors: Gergely Buza, Jacob Page, Rich R. Kerswell 

Publication date: 13 April 2022

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

Abstract: The recently-discovered centre-mode instability of rectilinear viscoelastic shear flow (Garg et al. Phy. Rev. Lett. 121, 024502, 2018) has offered an explanation for the origin of elasto-inertial turbulence (EIT) which occurs at lower Weissenberg ($Wi$) numbers. In support of this, we show using weakly nonlinear analysis that the subcriticality found in Page et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 154501, 2020) is generic across the neutral curve with the instability only becoming supercritical at low Reynolds ($Re$) numbers and high $Wi$. We demonstrate that the instability can be viewed as purely elastic in origin even for $Re=O(10^3)$, rather than `elasto-inertial', as the underlying shear does not energise the instability. It is also found that the introduction of a realistic maximum polymer extension length, $L_{max}$, in the FENE-P model moves the neutral curve closer to the inertialess $Re=0$ limit at a fixed ratio of solvent-to-solution viscosities, $$. In the dilute limit ($$) with $L_{max}=O(100)$, the linear instability can brought down to more physically-relevant $Wigtrsim110$ at $$, compared with the threshold $Wi=O(10^3)$ at $$ reported recently by Khalid et al. (arXiv: 2103.06794) for an Oldroyd-B fluid. Again the instability is subcritical implying that inertialess rectilinear viscoelastic shear flow is nonlinearly unstable - i.e. unstable to finite amplitude disturbances - for even lower $Wi$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06191

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zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationsubcriticalityweakly nonlinear analysiscentre-mode instabilityviscoelastic FENE-P fluid model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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