Linear instability of planar shear banded flow of both diffusive and non-diffusive Johnson-Segalman fluids

DOI10.1016/J.JNNFM.2006.05.010zbMATH Open1195.76176arXivcond-mat/0511114OpenAlexW2161225777WikidataQ61842125 ScholiaQ61842125MaRDI QIDQ994499FDOQ994499

Suzanne M. Fielding, Helen J. Wilson

Publication date: 17 September 2010

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

Abstract: We consider the linear stability of shear banded planar Couette flow of the Johnson-Segalman fluid, with and without the addition of stress diffusion to regularise the equations. In particular, we investigate the effect of two-dimensional perturbations representing undulations along the interface between shear bands. We demonstrate analytically that, for the linear stability problem, the limit in which diffusion tends to zero is mathematically equivalent to a pure (non-diffusive) Johnson-Segalman model with a material interface between the shear bands, provided the wavelength of perturbations being considered is long relative to the (short) diffusion lengthscale. For no diffusion, we find that the flow is unstable to long waves for almost all arrangements of the two shear bands. Weak diffusion provides a small stabilising effect, rendering extremely long waves marginally stable. However, the basic long-wave instability mechanism is not affected by this, and where there would be instability as wavenumber k tends to 0 in the absence of diffusion, we observe instability for moderate to long waves even with diffusion. This paper is the first full analytical investigation into an instability first documented in the numerical study of Physical Review Letters 95 (2005) 134501 cond-mat/0501518. We discuss the relevance of this work to recent experimental observations of complex dynamics seen in shear-banded flows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511114

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zbMATH Keywords

Couette flowlinear instabilityinterfacial instabilitydiffusive Johnson-Segalman fluidshear-banding fluid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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