Shallow current of viscous fluid flowing between diverging or converging walls

DOI10.1017/JFM.2023.911arXiv2302.09186MaRDI QIDQ6183045FDOQ6183045

Author name not available (Why is that?), Herbert E. Huppert

Publication date: 4 January 2024

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

Abstract: We investigate the shallow flow of viscous fluid into and out of a channel whose gap width increases as a power-law ($x^n$), where $x$ is the downstream axis. The fluid flows slowly, while injected at a rate in the form of $t^{a}lpha$, where $t$ is time and $alpha$ is a constant. The invading fluid has higher viscosity than the ambient fluid, thus avoiding Saffman-Taylor instability. Similarity solutions of the first kind for the outflow problem are found using approximations of lubrication theory. Zheng et al [2014] studied the deep-channel case and found divergent behaviour of the similarity variable as $nightarrow1$ and $nightarrow3$, when fluid flows into and out of the channel respectively. No divergence is found in the shallow case presented here. The characteristic equilibration time for the numerically simulated constant-volume flow to converge to the similarity solution is calculated assuming inverse dependence on the ratio disagreement between the current front using the method of lines (MOL). The inverse power dependence between equilibration time and ratio disagreement is found for channels of different powers. A similarity solution of the second kind for the inflow problem is found using the phase plane formalism and the bisection method. An exponential decay relationship is found between $n$ and the degree $delta$ of the similarity variable $x{t}^{-delta}$, which does not show any divergent behaviour for large $n$. An asymptotic behaviour is found for $delta$ that approaches $1/2$ as $nightarrowinfty$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09186

zbMATH Keywords

lubrication theorygravity currentsshallow water flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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