An accurate and comprehensive model of thin fluid flows with inertia on curved substrates

DOI10.1017/S0022112006008640zbMATH Open1087.76009arXivchao-dyn/9906011MaRDI QIDQ5290656FDOQ5290656

A. J. Roberts, Zhenquan Li

Publication date: 3 May 2006

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

Abstract: Consider the 3D flow of a viscous Newtonian fluid upon a curved 2D substrate when the fluid film is thin as occurs in many draining, coating and biological flows. We derive a comprehensive model of the dynamics of the film, the model being expressed in terms of the film thickness and the average lateral velocity. Based upon centre manifold theory, we are assured that the model accurately includes the effects of the curvature of substrate, gravitational body force, fluid inertia and dissipation. The model may be used to resolve wave-like phenomena in the dynamics of viscous fluid flows over arbitrarily curved substrates such as cylinders, tubes and spheres. We briefly illustrate its use in simulating drop formation on cylindrical fibres, wave transitions, Faraday waves, viscous hydraulic jumps, and flow vortices in a compound channel. These models are the most complete models for thin film flow of a Newtonian fluid; many other thin film models can be obtained by different truncations of the dynamical equations given herein.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9906011

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zbMATH Keywords

film thicknessFaraday wavesdrop formationaverage lateral velocity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thin fluid films (76A20)

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