Viscous lock-exchange in rectangular channels

DOI10.1017/S0022112010006208MaRDI QIDQ3097841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jérôme Martin, Nicole Rakotomalala, L. Talon, Dominique Salin

Publication date 10 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6262

zbMATH Keywords

gravity currents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Abstract: In a viscous lock-exchange gravity current, which describes the reciprocal exchange of two fluids of different densities in a horizontal channel, the front between two Newtonian fluids spreads as the square root of time. The resulting diffusion coefficient reflects the competition between the buoyancy driving effect and the viscous damping, and depends on the geometry of the channel. This lock-exchange diffusion coefficient has already been computed for a porous medium, a 2D Stokes flow between two parallel horizontal boundaries separated by a vertical height, H, and, recently, for a cylindrical tube. In the present paper, we calculate it, analytically, for a rectangular channel (horizontal thickness b, vertical height, H) of any aspect ratio (H/b) and compare our results with experiments in horizontal rectangular channels for a wide range of aspect ratios (1/10-10). We also discuss the 2D Stokes-Darcy model for flows in Hele-Shaw cells and show that it leads to a rather good approximation, when an appropriate Brinkman correction is used.

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