Slip yield stress effects in start-up Newtonian Poiseuille flows

Analytical solutions are derived for various start-up Newtonian Poiseuille flows assuming that slip at the wall occurs when the wall shear stress exceeds a critical value, known as the slip yield stress. Two distinct regimes characterise the steady axisymmetric and planar flows, which are defined by a critical value of the pressure gradient. If the imposed pressure gradient is below this critical value, the classical no-slip, start-up solution holds. Otherwise, no-slip flow occurs only initially, for a finite time interval determined by a critical time, after which slip does occur. For the annular case, there is an additional intermediate (steady) flow regime where slip occurs only at the inner wall, and hence, there exist two critical values of the pressure gradient. If the applied pressure gradient exceeds both critical values, the velocity evolves initially with no-slip at both walls up to the first critical time, then with slip only along the inner wall up to the second critical time and finally with slip at both walls.     

Determining the true slip of a yield stress material with a sliding plate rheometer

Within this paper we demonstrate the capability of the sliding plate configuration of the flexure-based microgap rheometer (FMR) to absolutely determine slip velocities of a yield stress fluid. The sensitivity of the compound flexures of the FMR in combination with the possibility to achieve precise gap settings down to 1?μm allows to accurately determining slip velocities down to 1?μm/s. We further show how the obtained non-linear relation of the slip velocity to the constant stresses of the plane Couette flow in the sliding plate configuration of the FMR allows predicting and explaining the inhomogeneous stress distribution and partial yielding behaviour in a rotational cone-and-plate geometry.     

The effect of the slip condition on Stokes and Couette flows due to an oscillating wall: exact solutions

Stokes and Couette flows produced by an oscillatory motion of a wall are analyzed under conditions where the no-slip assumption between the wall and the fluid is no longer valid. The motion of the wall is assumed to have a generic sinusoidal behavior. The exact solutions include both steady periodic and transient velocity profiles. It is found that slip conditions between the wall and the fluid produces lower amplitudes of oscillations in the flow near the oscillating wall than when no-slip assumption is utilized. Further, the relative velocity between the fluid layer at the wall and the speed of the wall is found to overshoot at a specific oscillating slip parameter or vibrational Reynolds number at certain times. In addition, it is found that wall slip reduces the transient velocity for Stokes flow while minimum transient effects for Couette flow is achieved only for large and small values of the wall slip coefficient and the gap thickness, respectively. The time needed to reach to steady periodic Stokes flow due to sine oscillations is greater than that for cosine oscillations with both wall slip and no-slip conditions.     

Newtonian flow in a triangular duct with slip at the wall

We consider the Newtonian Poiseuille flow in a tube whose cross-section is an equilateral triangle. It is assumed that boundary slip occurs only above a critical value of the wall shear stress, namely the slip yield stress. It turns out that there are three flow regimes defined by two critical values of the pressure gradient. Below the first critical value, the fluid sticks everywhere and the classical no-slip solution is recovered. In an intermediate regime the fluid slips only around the middle of each boundary side and the flow problem is not amenable to analytical solution. Above the second critical pressure gradient non-uniform slip occurs everywhere at the wall. An analytical solution is derived for this case and the results are discussed.     

Plane Couette flow of viscoplastic materials along a slippery vibrating wall

This study looks at the influence of slip at the wall on plane Couette flows of viscous and yield stress fluids with ultrasonic wall motion. These fluids are used in coating processes. A constant speed V at one wall creates the flow, and vibrations and slip take place at the other wall. Isothermal conditions and arbitrary (longitudinal or transverse) vibrations are considered, with negligible vibrational inertia.For the Bingham model, due to its nonlinearity, whatever the vibration direction and the wall slipperiness, significant decreases occur in the average stress as soon as moderate values of the dimensionless vibration velocity amplitude are involved. Such effects are associated with adherent or slippery walls, even with linear friction laws. They do not occur with linear viscous (Newtonian) models.Average stress reductions can reach nearly 100% for very high Oldroyd numbers, i.e. for stress values without vibration close to the yield limit. Slip velocity also decreases. The cost in terms of the power dissipated remains relatively less than in the Newtonian case, and may contribute to a change in the temperature field. Even when the flow without vibration is a pure slip one, large enough amplitude vibrations, either longitudinal or transverse, applied at the wall can reduce the average shear stress and slip velocity, giving rise to an average axial shear flow.Hence vibrations of moderate or high-velocity amplitude applied to adherent or slippery walls enhance plane Couette flow rates for viscoplastic materials. With moderate values of this amplitude, longitudinal vibrations may be 1.5–2 times more efficient than transverse vibrations with an equivalent cost. However, if for technological reasons transverse vibrations have to be preferred, they can also produce significant results. In any case, coating flows should benefit from an adequate application of ultrasound at the wall.     

Numerical study of the combined effects of inertia,slip, and compressibility in extrusion of yield stress fluids

The axisymmetric extrudate swell flow of a compressible Herschel–Bulkley fluid with wall slip is solved numerically. The Papanastasiou-regularized version of the constitutive equation is employed, together with a linear equation of state relating the density of the fluid to the pressure. Wall slip is assumed to obey Navier’s slip law. The combined effects of yield stress, inertia, slip, and compressibility on the extrudate shape and the extrudate swell ratio are analyzed for representative values of the power-law exponent. When the Reynolds number is zero or low, swelling is reduced with the yield stress and eventually the extrudate contracts so that the extrudate swell ratio reaches a minimum beyond which it starts increasing asymptotically to unity. Slip suppresses both swelling and contraction in this regime. For moderate Reynolds numbers, the extrudate may exhibit necking and the extrudate swell ratio initially increases with yield stress reaching a maximum; then, it decreases till a minimum corresponding to contraction, and finally, it converges asymptotically to unity. In this regime, slip tends to eliminate necking and may initially cause further swelling of the extrudate, which is suppressed if slip becomes stronger. Compressibility was found to slightly increase swelling, this effect being more pronounced for moderate yield stress values and wall slip.     

Confined viscoplastic flows with heterogeneous wall slip

The steady, pressure-driven flow of a Herschel-Bulkley fluid in a microchannel is considered, assuming that different power-law slip equations apply at the two walls due to slip heterogeneities, allowing the velocity profile to be asymmetric. Three different flow regimes are observed as the pressure gradient is increased. Below a first critical pressure gradient G ₁, the fluid moves unyielded with a uniform velocity, and thus, the two slip velocities are equal. In an intermediate regime between G ₁ and a second critical pressure gradient G ₂, the fluid yields in a zone near the weak-slip wall and flows with uniform velocity near the stronger-slip wall. Beyond this regime, the fluid yields near both walls and the velocity are uniform only in the central unyielded core. It is demonstrated that the central unyielded region tends towards the midplane only if the power-law exponent is less than unity; otherwise, this region rends towards the weak-slip wall and asymmetry is enhanced. The extension of the different flow regimes depends on the channel gap; in particular, the intermediate asymmetric flow regime dominates when the gap becomes smaller than a characteristic length which incorporates the wall slip coefficients and the fluid properties. The theoretical results compare well with available experimental data on soft glassy suspensions. These results open new routes in manipulating the flow of viscoplastic materials in applications where the flow behavior depends not only on the bulk rheology of the material but also on the wall properties.     

Slow motions of a circular cylinder experiencing slip near a plane wall

A theoretical study is presented for the two-dimensional creeping flow caused by a long circular cylindrical particle translating and rotating in a viscous fluid near a large plane wall parallel to its axis. The fluid is allowed to slip at the surface of the particle. The Stokes equations for the fluid velocity field are solved in the quasi-steady limit using cylindrical bipolar coordinates. Semi-analytical solutions for the drag force and torque acting on the particle by the fluid are obtained for various values of the slip coefficient associated with the particle surface and of the relative separation distance between the particle and the wall. The results indicate that the translation and rotation of the confined cylinder are not coupled with each other. For the motion of a no-slip cylinder near a plane wall, our hydrodynamic drag force and torque results reduce to the closed-form solutions available in the literature. The boundary-corrected drag force and torque acting on the particle decrease with an increase in the slip coefficient for an otherwise specified condition. The plane wall exerts the greatest drag on the particle when its migration occurs normal to it, and the least in the case of motion parallel to it. The enhancement in the hydrodynamic drag force and torque on a translating and rotating particle caused by a nearby plane wall is much more significant for a cylinder than for a sphere.     

Influence of wall slip on the hydrodynamic behavior of a two-dimensional slider bearing

In the present paper, a multi-linearity method is used to address the nonlinear slip control equation for the hydrodynamic analysis of a two-dimensional (2-D) slip gap flow. Numerical analysis of a finite length slider bearing with wall slip shows that the surface limiting shear stress exerts complicated influences on the hydrodynamic behavior of the gap flow. If the slip occurs at either the stationary surface or the moving surface (especially at the stationary surface), there is a transition point in the initial limiting shear stress for the proportional coefficient to affect the hydrodynamic load support in two opposite ways: it increases the hydrodynamic load support at higher initial limiting shear stresses, but decreases the hydrodynamic load support at lower initial limiting shear stresses. If the slip occurs at the moving surface only, no fluid pressure is generated in the case of null initial limiting shear stress. If the slip occurs at both the surfaces with the same slip property, the hydrodynamic load support goes off after a critical sliding speed is reached. A small initial limiting shear stress and a small proportionality coefficient always give rise to a low friction drag. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10421002, 10332010), the National Basic Research Program of China (2006CB601205), and the Science Research Foundation of Liaoning Province (20052178). The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

Exact solution for compressive flow of viscoplastic fluids under perfect slip wall boundary conditions

Based on the perfect slip condition between rigid walls and fluids, the compressive flow of Herschel-Bulkley fluids and biviscous fluids was studied. The explicit expressions of stresses and fluid velocity were given. To move the rigid walls for a Herschel-Bulkley fluid with the yield stress (τ₀), the mean pressure applied onto the rigid wall should be larger than 2τ₀/. No yield surface exists in the interior of the fluids when flow occurs. For a biviscous fluid, a critical load was given. The fluid behaves like the Bingham fluid when the external applied load onto the wall is larger than the critical load, otherwise the fluid is Newtonian. Received: 10 June 1997 Accepted: 22 September 1997     

Plane strain slip line theory for anisotropic rigid/plastic materials

A slip line theory governing states of incipient plane flow at the yield point load is developed for anisotropic rigid/plastic materials which exhibit a reduced yield criterion, governing states of plane flow, that depends only on the deviatoric parts of the in-plane stress tensor. It is shown that every homogeneous, incompressible material which complies with the principle of maximum plastic work, but which is of otherwise arbitrary anisotropy, is of this class. The stress equilibrium requirements are seen to take a remarkably simple form expressing the constancy of the quantities mean in-plane normal stress plus or minus arc length around the governing yield contour in a Mohr stress plane along members of the two slip line families. Further, this generalization of the Hencky equations is valid for every material of the considered class. Some special features of yield contours containing corners and flat segments are discussed, and velocity equations are given for materials complying with the maximum work inequality. The theory is applied to obtain the solution for indentation of an arbitrarily anisotropic half-space with a flat-ended, rigid, frictionless punch. A simple, universal formula, involving only geometrical dimensions of the governing yield contour, is derived for the yield point indentation pressure.     

Numerical simulation of laminar flow past a circular cylinder with slip conditions

The no‐slip condition is an assumption that cannot be derived from first principles and a growing number of literatures replace the no‐slip condition with partial‐slip condition, or Navier‐slip condition. In this study, the influence of partial‐slip boundary conditions on the laminar flow properties past a circular cylinder was examined. Shallow‐water equations are solved by using the finite element method accommodating SU/PG scheme. Four Reynolds numbers (20, 40, 80, and 100) and six slip lengths were considered in the numerical simulation to investigate the effects of slip length and Reynolds number on characteristic parameters such as wall vorticity, drag coefficient, separation angle, wake length, velocity distributions on and behind the cylinder, lift coefficient, and Strouhal number. The simulation results revealed that as the slip length increases, the drag coefficient decreases since the frictional component of drag is reduced, and the shear layer developed along the cylinder surface tends to push the separation point away toward the rear stagnation point so that it has larger separation angle than that of the no‐slip condition. The length of the wake bubble zone was shortened by the combined effects of the reduced wall vorticity and wall shear stress which caused a shift of the reattachment point closer to the cylinder. The frequency of the asymmetrical vortex formation with partial slip velocity was increased due to the intrinsic inertial effect of the Navier‐slip condition. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Empirical slip and viscosity model performance for microscale gas flow

For the simple geometries of Couette and Poiseuille flows, the velocity profile maintains a similar shape from continuum to free molecular flow. Therefore, modifications to the fluid viscosity and slip boundary conditions can improve the continuum based Navier–Stokes solution in the non‐continuum non‐equilibrium regime. In this investigation, the optimal modifications are found by a linear least‐squares fit of the Navier–Stokes solution to the non‐equilibrium solution obtained using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. Models are then constructed for the Knudsen number dependence of the viscosity correction and the slip model from a database of DSMC solutions for Couette and Poiseuille flows of argon and nitrogen gas, with Knudsen numbers ranging from 0.01 to 10. Finally, the accuracy of the models is measured for non‐equilibrium cases both in and outside the DSMC database. Flows outside the database include: combined Couette and Poiseuille flow, partial wall accommodation, helium gas, and non‐zero convective acceleration. The models reproduce the velocity profiles in the DSMC database within an L₂ error norm of 3% for Couette flows and 7% for Poiseuille flows. However, the errors in the model predictions outside the database are up to five times larger. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Apparent wall slip velocity measurements in free surface flow of concentrated suspensions

In this work we have experimentally measured the apparent wall slip velocity in open channel flow of neutrally buoyant suspension of non-colloidal particles. The free surface velocity profile was measured using the tool of particle imaging velocimetry (PIV) for two different channels made of plane and rough walls. The rough walled channel prevents wall slip, whereas the plane wall showed significant wall slip due to formation of slip layer. By comparing the velocity profiles from these two cases we were able to determine the apparent wall slip velocity. This method allows characterization of wall slip in suspension of large sized particles which cannot be performed in conventional rheometers. Experiments were carried out for concentrated suspensions of various particle volume concentrations and for two different sizes of particles. It was observed that wall slip velocity increases with particle size and concentration but decreases with increase in the viscosity of suspending fluid. The apparent wall slip velocity coefficients are in qualitative agreement with the earlier measurements. The effect of wall slip on free surface corrugation was also studied by analyzing the power spectral density (PSD) of the refracted light from the free surface. Our results indicate that free surface corrugation is a bulk flow response and it does not arise from boundary problem such as development of slip layer.     

Unsteady circular Couette flow of a Bingham plastic with the Augmented Lagrangian Method

Numerical simulations are undertaken for unsteady flows of an ideal Bingham fluid in a circular Couette viscometer. The main difficulties in such simulations are caused by the non-differentiability of the constitutive equation and the need to determine the position and shape of the yield surface separating the yielded zones from the unyielded ones. In this work, these difficulties are overcome by using a numerical method based on variational inequalities, i.e. the augmented Lagrangian/Uzawa method. The start-up and cessation of circular Couette flows of a Bingham fluid are solved numerically assuming that only one of the cylinders is rotating. An improved theoretical upper bound for the stopping time in the case of cessation is derived. The numerical estimates for the stopping time compare well with the theoretical bounds. Moreover, with the adopted method the evolution of the velocity profiles and the locations of yielded/unyielded surfaces are accurately calculated. In flow cessation, we observe an interesting effect, namely the appearance of a small unyielded region adjoined to the outer cylinder shortly before cessation.     

Instability of a slip flow in a curved channel formed by two concentric cylindrical surfaces

Instability of a slip flow in a curved channel formed by two concentric cylindrical surfaces is investigated. Two cases are considered. In the first (Taylor–Couette flow) case the flow is driven by the rotation of the inner cylindrical surface; no azimuthal pressure gradient is applied. In the second case (Dean flow) both cylindrical surfaces are motionless, and the flow is driven by a constant azimuthal pressure gradient. The collocation method is used to find numerically the critical values of the Taylor and Dean numbers, which establish the instability criteria for these two cases. The dependencies of critical values of these numbers on the ratio between the radii of concave and convex walls and on the velocity slip coefficient are investigated.     

Burnett simulation of flow and heat transfer in micro Couette flow using second-order slip conditions

The conventional Burnett equations with second-order velocity slip and temperature jump conditions were applied to the steady-state micro Couette flow of a Maxwellian monatomic gas. An analytical approach as well as a relaxation method was used to determine the velocity slip and temperature jump at the wall. Convergent solutions to the Burnett equations were obtained on arbitrary fine numerical grids for all Knudsen numbers (Kn) up to the limit of the equations’ validity. The Burnett equations with second-order slip conditions indicate a much better agreement with DSMC data over the first-order slip conditions at high Kn. The convergent Burnett solutions were obtained in orders of magnitude quicker than that with the corresponding DSMC simulation. The augmented Burnett equations were also introduced to model the flow but no obvious improvement in the results was found.     

Note on arc crack experiencing slip

Under certain loading conditions a crack surface may undergo partial sliding (slip). Such slip may be triggered by non-uniformity of frictional characteristics along the crack surface, variability of applied stresses or curvilinearity of a crack path. In the present work we study the influence of a curvilinear shape of a crack on slip evolution. The analysis is carried out for the case of a two-dimensional circular arc crack. Initiation and propagation of a slip zone is investigated based on the criterion that the shear stress intensity factor vanishes at endpoints of the slip zone. Two case scenarios are studied: first, when slip is attributed to the non-uniform distribution of a coefficient of friction and, second, when slip is initiated by the far field compressive loads. The curvilinear effects are estimated by comparing the obtained solutions with the ones for a straight crack. Analytical expressions for the stress intensity factors (SIFs) derived in this work may also present certain interest of their own.     

Rheo-PIV of a yield-stress fluid in a capillary with slip at the wall

An analysis of the yielding and flow behavior of a model yield-stress fluid, 0.2 wt% Carbopol gel, in a capillary with slip at the wall has been carried out in the present work. For this, a study of the flow kinematics in a capillary rheometer was performed with a two-dimensional particle image velocimetry (PIV) system. Besides, a stress-controlled rotational rheometer with a vane rotor was used as an independent way to measure the yield stress. The results in this work show that in the limit of resolution of the PIV technique, the flow behavior agrees with the existence of a yield stress, but there is a smooth solid?Cliquid transition in the capillary flow curve, which complicates the determination of the yield stress from rheometrical data. This complication, however, is overcome by using the solely velocity profiles and the measured wall shear stresses, from which the yield-stress value is reliably determined. The main details of the kinematics in the presence of slip were all captured during the experiments, namely, a purely plug flow before yielding, the solid?Cliquid transition, as well as the behavior under flow, respectively. Finally, it was found that the slip velocity increases in a power-law way with the shear stress.