Resonant Interactions between Vortical Flows and Water Waves. Part II: Shallow Water

Any weak, steady vortical flow is a solution, to leading order, of the inviscid fluid equations with a free surface, so long as this flow has horizontal streamlines coinciding with the undisturbed free surface. This work considers the propagation of long irrotational surface gravity waves when such a vortical flow is present. In particular, when the vortical flow and the irrotational surface waves are both periodic and have comparable length scales, resonant interactions can occur between the various components of the flow. The interaction is described by two coupled Korteweg-de Vries equations and a two-dimensional streamfunction equation.     

Hele–Shaw flow on hyperbolic surfaces

Consider a complete simply connected hyperbolic surface. The classical Hadamard theorem asserts that at each point of the surface, the exponential mapping from the tangent plane to the surface defines a global diffeomorphism. This can be interpreted as a statement relating the metric flow on the tangent plane with that of the surface. We find an analogue of Hadamard's theorem with metric flow replaced by Hele–Shaw flow, which models the injection of (two-dimensional) fluid into the surface. The Hele–Shaw flow domains are characterized implicitly by a mean value property on harmonic functions.     

Resonant Interactions between Vortical Flows and Water Waves. Part I: Deep Water

Any weak, steady vortical flow is a solution to leading order of the inviscid fluid equations with a free surface, so long as this flow has horizontal streamlines coinciding with the undisturbed free surface. This work considers the propagation of irrotational surface gravity waves when such a vortical flow is present. In particular, when the vortical flow and the irrotational surface waves are both periodic, resonant interactions can occur between the various components of the flow. The periodic vortical component of the flow is proposed as a model for more complicated vortical flows that would affect surface waves in the ocean, such as the turbulence in the wake of a ship. These resonant interactions are studied in two dimensions, both in the limit of deep water (Part I) and shallow water (Part II). For deep water, the resonant set of surface waves is governed by “triad-like” ordinary differential equations for the wave amplitudes, whose coefficients depend on the underlying rotational flow. These coefficients are calculated explicitly and the stability of various configurations of waves is discussed. The effect of three dimensionality is also briefly mentioned.     

The Surface Area Preserving Mean Curvature Flow in Quasi-Fuchsian Manifolds

In this paper, we consider the surface area preserving mean curvature flow in quasi-Fuchsian 3-manifolds. We show that the flow exists for all times and converges exponentially to a smooth surface of constant mean curvature with the same surface area as the initial surface.     

Modeling of water surface profile in subterranean channel by differential quadrature method (DQM)

This study, investigates the hydraulic of flow in a subterranean channel headspring. The continuity and momentum equations of flow in porous media considering real conditions were used and the basic equation of flow in a subterranean channel was resulted. This equation is very similar to the spatially varied flow with increasing discharge. An equation, defining the hydraulic parameters of a subterranean channel section was adopted. Then differential quadrature method (DQM), was applied to the equation of flow in subterranean channel, consequently the water surface profile was resulted. To illustrate the rightness of model, the hydraulic parameters of flow in the Gavgard branch of the Joopar Goharriz Qanat were measured and the water surface profile was determined. This water surface profile was compared to the water surface profile computed by the model, which are in good agreement.     

Modeling of flow in a very small surface separation

When a fluid flows in a very small surface separation, the very thin boundary layer physically adhering to the solid surface will participate in the flow, while between the two boundary layers is a continuum fluid flow. An analysis is here presented for this multiscale flow. The continuum fluid is treated as Newtonian. The physical adsorbed boundary layer is treated as non-continuum across the layer thickness. The interfacial slippage can occur on the adsorbed layer-solid surface interface, while it is absent on the adsorbed layer-fluid interface. Three flow equations are derived respectively for the two adsorbed layers and the intermediate continuum fluid. They together govern the multiscale flow in such a small surface separation.     

Modelling free surfaces in oscillating pipe flows

An oscillating pipe flow with a free surface is investigated numerically and experimentally. The pipe diameter is 12mm. Due to this small diameter capillary forces play an important role. Therefore special attention has to be paid to the flow field near the free surface. The numerical model is based on the fundamental flow equations. The free surface is resolved according to the volume-of-fluid method. The model equations are solved on a moving grid. In the experiment, pictures of the flow field are taken near the free surface. The effects occuring near the interface will be presented here. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On a limiting motion and self-intersections for the intermediate surface diffusion flow

We rigorously prove that the solution surface of the intermediate surface diffusion flow converges to that of the averaged mean curvature flow locally in time as the diffusion coefficient tends to infinity. As an application of this convergence result, we show that the intermediate surface diffusion flow can drive embedded hypersurfaces into self-intersections. RID="*" ID="*"Partially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant No. 10304010, 12814024.     

Laminar boundary layer over a flexible surface in oscillatory flow

A two-dimensional oscillatory flow over a flat flexible surface is analysed. Low and high frequency solutions are developed separately. Results depicting the effect of surface flexibility on the flow in comparison to that over a rigid surface are presented.     

The Second Type Singularities of Symplectic and Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flows

This paper mainly deals with the type II singularities of the mean curvature flow from a symplectic surface or from an almost calibrated Lagrangian surface in a Kähler surface. The relation between the maximum of the Kähler angle and the maximum of |H|² on the limit flow is studied. The authors also show the nonexistence of type II blow-up flow of a symplectic mean curvature flow which is normal flat or of an almost calibrated Lagrangian mean curvature flow which is flat.     

Singularities on Free Surfaces of Fluid Flows

Isolated singularities on free surfaces of two-dimensional and axially symmetric three-dimensional steady potential flows with gravity are considered. A systematic study is presented, where known solutions are recovered and new ones found. In two dimensions, the singularities found include those described by the Stokes solution with a 120° angle, Craya's flow with a cusp on the free surface, Gurevich's flow with a free surface meeting a rigid plane at 120° angle, and Dagan and Tulin's flow with a horizontal free surface meeting a rigid wall at an angle less than 120°. In three dimensions, the singularities found include those in Garabedian's axially symmetric flow about a conical surface with an approximately 130° angle, flows with axially symmetric cusps, and flows with a horizontal free surface and conical stream surfaces. The Stokes, Gurevich, and Garabedian flows are exact solutions. These are used to generate local solutions, including perturbations of the Stokes solution by Grant and Longuet-Higgins and Fox, perturbations of Gurevich's flow by Vanden-Broeck and Tuck, asymmetric perturbations of Stokes flow and nonaxisymmetric perturbations of Garabedian's flow. A generalization of the Stokes solution to three fluids meeting at a point is also found.     

Evolution of curves on a surface driven by the geodesic curvature and external force

We study a flow of closed curves on a given graph surface driven by the geodesic curvature and external force. Using vertical projection of surface curves to the plane we show how the geodesic curvature-driven flow can be reduced to a solution of a fully nonlinear system of parabolic differential equations. We show that the flow of surface curves is gradient-like, i.e. there exists a Lyapunov functional nonincreasing along trajectories. Special attention is placed on the analysis of closed stationary surface curves. We present sufficient conditions for their dynamic stability. Several computational examples of evolution of surface curves driven by the geodesic curvature and external force on various surfaces are presented in this article. We also discuss a link between the geodesic flow and the edge detection problem arising from the image segmentation theory.     

Bio-inspired propulsion: Downstream travelling wave motion of a surface with finite & infinite extension

The thrust force on a surface that performs a fish-like travelling wave motion downstream to an oncoming flow is discussed. Unsteady potential flow, with vortex shedding from the trailing edge, is known to explain the generation of thrust. Contrarily, fish swimming has been related to the flow over an infinitely extended surface. To interlink both problems, the potential flow over the surface of finite length is considered in the limit of high wave numbers. It turns out that the leading order, space-periodic pressure does not contribute to thrust. Thus, the perturbation pressure is essential for propulsion. Besides, laminar flow is considered in the space-periodic setting. The present results reveal – in contrast to literature – that the surface force is always drag. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Some dynamic properties of volume preserving curvature driven flows

This paper is concerned with the following three types of geometric evolution equations: the volume preserving mean curvature flow, the intermediate surface diffusion flow, and the surface diffusion flow. Important common properties of these flows are the preservation of volume and the decrease of perimeter. It is shown in this paper that the intermediate surface diffusion flow can lose convexity. Hence the volume preserving mean curvature flow is the only flow among the evolution equations under consideration which preserves convexity, cf. [11, 16, 14, 17]. Moreover, several sufficient conditions are presented, which illustrate that each of the above mentioned flows can move smooth initial configurations into singularities in finite time.     

计算几何中几何偏微分方程的构造

平均曲率流、曲面扩散流和Willmore流等著名的几何流除了在理论方面有重要的意义之外,在计算机辅助几何设计、计算机图形学以及图像处理等领域也得到了广泛的应用．然而在解决实际问题时,人们经常要根据问题的特点构造其它具有指定性质的几何流．本文从统一的观点出发,对于参数曲面以及水平集曲面,给出了几类重要几何偏微分方程(包括L2梯度流、H-1梯度流以及H-2梯度流)的构造．这几类几何流的包容十分广泛,上述提到的几个几何流均为其特例．     

Three-dimensional non-Darcy flow analysis using a hybrid numerical model

A hybrid numerical model is developed for the simulation of three-dimensional, unsteady non-Darcy flow through an unconfined aquifer. The major problem in analysing flow through unconfined aquifers is that they involve two boundaries, namely a surface of seepage and a free surface, the location of which is not known beforehand. The model that is presented here determines these boundaries via a two stage modelling technique. In the first stage a one-dimensional finite difference model is used to estimate the surface of seepage height whereas in the second stage a vertically integrated finite element model determines the free surface solution within the flow domain. A comparison between numerical and experimental results is included which indicates the sensitivity of the numerical solution to the selected aquifer parameters, particularly to those associated with the determination of the height of the surface of seepage.     

Gradient Flow of the Lβ-Functional

In this paper,we start to study the gradient flow of the functional L_β introduced by Han-Li-Sun in[8].As a first step,we show that if the initial surface is symplectic in a K?hler surface,then the symplectic property is preserved along the gradient flow.Then we show that the singularity of the flow is characterized by the maximal norm of the second fundamental form.When β=1,we derive a monotonicity formula for the flow.As applications,we show that the l-tangent cone of the flow consists of the finite flat planes.     

The study of Heat and Mass Transfer in a Visco elastic fluid due to a continuous stretching surface using Homotopy Analysis Method

In this paper, an approximate analytical solution is derived for the flow velocity and temperature due to the laminar, two-dimensional flow of non-Newtonian incompressible visco elastic fluid due to a continuous stretching surface. The surface is stretched with a velocity proportional to the distance $x$ along the surface. The surface is assumed to have either power-law heat flux or power-law temperature distribution. The presence of source/sink and the effect of uniform suction and injection on the flow are considered for analysis. An approximate analytical solution has been obtained using Homotopy Analysis Method(HAM) for various values of visco elastic parameter, suction and injection rates. Optimal values of the convergence control parameters are computed for the flow variables. It was found that the computational time required for averaged residual error calculation is very very small compared to the computation time of exact squared residual errors. The effect of mass transfer parameter, visco elastic parameter, source/sink parameter and the power law index on flow variables such as velocity, temperature profiles, shear stress, heat and mass transfer rates are discussed.