Fluid Dynamics at Interfaces

by Edited by Wei Shyy , Ranga Narayanan

• ISBN13: 9780521135160
• ISBN10: 0521135168
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Many of the significant issues in fluid dynamics occur at interfaces, that is, at the boundaries between differing fluids or between fluids and solids. These issues are important in areas ranging from aircraft flight, to the flow of blood in the heart, to chemical vapour deposition. The subject is an area of active research and development, owing to improved analytical, experimental, and computational techniques. This book describes research and applications in interfacial fluid dynamics and stability. It is organized around five topics: Benard and thermocapillary instabilities, shear and pressure induced instabilities, waves and dispersions, multiphase systems, and complex flows. Chapters have been contributed by internationally recognized experts, both theoreticians and experimentalists. Because of the range and importance of topics discussed, this book will interest a broad audience of graduate students and researchers in mechanical, aerospace, materials, and chemical engineering, as well as in applied mathematics and physics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Benard and Thermo-Capillary Instabilities

Nonlinear dynamics and stability of thin evaporating liquid films subject to internal heat generation

Pattern formation in liquid-air convection - influence of air height in bilayer coupling

The third type of Benard convection induced by evaporation

Waves generated by surface tension gradients and instability

Thermocapillary-Coriolis instabilities

Shear and Pressure Driven Instabilities

Control of instability in a liquid film flow

Three-dimensional waves in thin liquid films

Modulation wave dynamics of kinematic interfacial waves

Multi-layer film flows down an inclined plane: simulations based on the lubrication approximation, and normal-mode decomposition of linear waves

Spatial evolution of interfacial waves in gas-liquid flows

The shear breakup of an immiscible fluid interface

Two-fluid-layer flow stability

Waves and Dispersion

On modeling unsteady fully nonlinear dispersive interfacial waves

Instabilities in the coupled equatorial ocean-atmosphere system

Large amplitude solitary wave on a pyenocluine and its instability

Stability and pattern selection in parametrically driven surface waves

Deformation and rupture in confined, thin liquid films driven by thermocapillarity

Linear and nonlinear waves in flowing water

Pinned-edge Faraday waves

Interfacial shapes in the steady flow of a highly viscous dispersed phase

Multiphase Systems

Interaction between fluid flow and flexible structures

Numerical treatment of moving interfaces in phase-change processes

Convergence and accuracy of Kernel-based continuum surface tension models

Interaction of convection and solidification at fluid-solid interfaces

Interfacial motion of a molten layer subject to plasma heating

The fluid mechanics of premelted liquid films

Recent advances in Lattice Boltzmann methods

Bubble dynamics in heterogeneous boiling heat transfer

Complex Flows

Heat, mass and momentum exchanges between outer flow and separation bubble behind a single backward-facing step with gas injection from one duct wall

A moving boundary problem arising from stratigraphic modeling

Convection generated by lateral heating of a solute gradient: review and extension

Heat conduction from a solid particle and the force on it in Stokes flow in a fluid with position dependent physical properties

Radiation affected ignition phenomena with solid-gas interaction

Bio-magnetic fluid dynamics

The man I know: Chia-Shun Yih, July 25, 1988-April 25, 1997

Index

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