Longitudinal and transverse flow over a cavity containing a second immiscible fluid

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DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.577zbMATH Open1284.76117arXiv1206.5967OpenAlexW3103206847MaRDI QIDQ5406549FDOQ5406549


Authors: Clarissa Schönecker, Steffen Hardt Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 1 April 2014

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

Abstract: An analytical solution for the flow field of a shear flow over a rectangular cavity containing a second immiscible fluid is derived. While flow of a single-phase fluid over a cavity is a standard case investigated in fluid dynamics, flow over a cavity which is filled with a second immiscible fluid, has received little attention. The flow filed inside the cavity is considered to define a boundary condition for the outer flow which takes the form of a Navier slip condition with locally varying slip length. The slip-length function is determined from the related problem of lid-driven cavity flow. Based on the Stokes equations and complex analysis it is then possible to derive a closed analytical expression for the flow field over the cavity for both the transversal and the longitudinal case. The result is a comparatively simple function, which displays the dependence of the flow field on the cavity geometry and the medium filling the cavity. The analytically computed flow field agrees well with results obtained from a numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. The studies presented in this article are of considerable practical relevance, for example for the flow over superhydrophobic surfaces.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5967




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