Axial eigenfunctions and inhomogeneous solutions for the three-dimensional Stokes system with an application to natural convection in a cylinder

This paper presents two contributions to the analysis of three-dimensional slow viscous flows in cylinders of circular section. First the vector axial eigenfunctions for this geometry, namely those that satisfy homogeneous boundary conditions on the flat end walls, are derived. Secondly a method is presented to find particular solutions to the inhomogeneous Stokes equations in this geometry. These new results, together with some results obtained earlier, are used to analyse slow natural convection in a vertical cylinder completely filled with a viscous liquid. The fluid motion is generated by the differential heating of the walls of the cylinder. The natural convection flow field is shown to be a superposition of an inhomogeneous field, the fields generated by the vector eigenfunctions and a Stokes flow field. A by-product of this work has been the identification of constraints on the boundary data that have to be satisfied in order for the eigenfunction expansions to work; this knowledge will be useful when attempts are made to prove the completeness of these Stokes flow eigenfunctions.     

Wall effects on the slow steady motion of a particle in a viscous incompressible fluid

In this paper, asymptotic expansions with respect to small Reynolds numbers are proved for the slow steady motion of an arbitrary particle in a viscous, incompressible fluid past a single plane wall. The flow problem is modelled by a certain boundary value problem for the stationary, nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations. The coefficients of these expansions are the solutions of various, linear Stokes problems which can be constructed by single layer potentials and corresponding boundary integral equations on the boundary surface of the particle. Furthermore, some asymptotic estimates at small Reynolds numbers are presented for the slow steady motion of an arbitrary particle in a viscous, incompressible fluid between two parallel, plane walls and in an infinitely long, rectilinear cylinder of arbitrary cross section. In the case of the flow problem with a single plane wall, the paper is based on a thesis, which the author has written under the guidance of Professor Dr. Wolfgang L. Wendland.     

Circle theorems for steady Stokes flow

Two circle theorems for two-dimensional steady Stokes flow are presented. The first theorem gives an expression for the stream function for a Stokes flow past a circular cylinder in terms of the stream function for a slow and steady irrotational flow in an unbounded incompressible viscous fluid. The second theorem gives a more general expression for the stream function for another Stokes flow past the circular cylinder in terms of the stream function for a slow and steady rotational flow in the same fluid.     

Effect of errors in the spatial geometry for temperature dependent Stokes flow

A priori bounds are established for the solution to the problem of Stokes flow in a bounded domain, for a viscous, heat conducting, incompressible fluid, when changes in the spatial geometry are admitted. These bounds demonstrate how the velocity field and the temperature field depend on changes in the spatial geometry and also yield a convergence theorem in terms of boundary perturbations. The results have a direct bearing on an error analysis for a numerical approximation to non-isothermal Stokes flow when the boundary of a complicated domain is approximated by a simpler one, e.g., in the procedure of triangulation combined with finite elements.     

Trace theorems for three-dimensional, time-dependent solenoidal vector fields and their applications

We study trace theorems for three-dimensional, time-dependent solenoidal vector fields. The interior function spaces we consider are natural for solving unsteady boundary value problems for the Navier-Stokes system and other systems of partial differential equations. We describe the space of restrictions of such vector fields to the boundary of the space-time cylinder and construct extension operators from this space of restrictions defined on the boundary into the interior. Only for two exceptional, but useful, values of the spatial smoothness index, the spaces for which we construct extension operators is narrower than the spaces in which we seek restrictions. The trace spaces are characterized by vector fields having different smoothnesses in directions tangential and normal to the boundary; this is a consequence of the solenoidal nature of the fields. These results are fundamental in the study of inhomogeneous boundary value problems for systems involving solenoidal vector fields. In particular, we use the trace theorems in a study of inhomogeneous boundary value problems for the Navier-Stokes system of viscous incompressible flows.

     

General Nonlocal Model Describing the Laminar and Turbulent Flows of Viscous and Nonlinear Viscous Fluids and Its Investigation

A general nonlocal model describing the flows of viscous and nonlinear viscous fluids for both laminar and turbulent flows is introduced and studied. For this model, the viscosity of the fluid depends on the second invariant of the rate of the strain tensor and on a nonlocal (integral) characteristic of the flow. This characteristic is a vector that, in the simplest case, is an analog of the Reynolds number. For slow flows, the model turns into the Navier–Stokes equations or into the equations of a nonlinear viscous fluid. Problems on steady and nonsteady flows with mixed boundary conditions when velocities and surface forces are prescribed on different parts of the boundary are studied. Existence results without restrictions on the smallness of data and on the length of the interval of time are proved.     

基于Monte-Carlo随机有限元方法的随机边界条件下自然对流换热不确定性研究

为分析边界条件不确定性对方腔内自然对流换热的影响,发展了一种求解随机边界条件下自然对流换热不确定性传播的Monte-Carlo随机有限元方法.通过对输入参数场随机边界条件进行Karhunen-Loeve展开及基于Latin(拉丁)抽样法生成边界条件随机样本,数值计算了不同边界条件随机样本下方腔内自然对流换热流场与温度场,并用采样统计方法计算了随机输出场的平均值与标准偏差.根据计算框架编写了求解随机边界条件下方腔内自然对流换热不确定性的MATLAB随机有限元程序,分析了随机边界条件相关长度与方差对自然对流不确定性的影响.结果表明:平均温度场及流场与确定性温度场及流场分布基本相同;随机边界条件下Nu数概率分布基本呈现正态分布,平均Nu数随着相关长度和方差增加而增大;方差对自然对流换热的影响强于相关长度的影响.     

An unified numerical approach of steady convection between two parallel plates

This paper considers the problem of laminar forced convection between two parallel plates. We present an unified numerical approach for some problems related to this case: the problem of viscous dissipation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions and the Graetz problem. The solutions of these problems are obtained by a series expansion of the complete eigenfunctions system of some Sturm-Liouville problems. The eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of this Sturm-Liouville problem are obtained by using Galerkin’s method. Numerical examples are given for viscous fluids with various Brinkman numbers.     

Separation of streamlines for spatially periodic flow at non-zero Reynolds numbers

The flow generated by a small rotating circular cylinder at the center of a corrugated outer cylinder is considered. By using a Stokes expansion, the first order correction in the Reynolds numberR is found for the creeping flow solution. An approximate critical Reynolds numberR _c is found at which separation appears, and it is expressed in terms of the boundary parameters. Separation is found to occur in the concave regions of the boundary skewed opposite to the direction of rotation of the inner cylinder. By partially solving for the second order correction in the Stokes expansion, it is found that an increase inR causes an increase in the torque exerted on the outer boundary.This work was supported in part by a grant from NSERC.     

Slow viscous flow through a membrane built up from porous cylindrical particles with an impermeable core

This paper concerns the slow viscous flow through an aggregate of concentric clusters of porous cylindrical particles with Happel boundary condition. An aggregate of clusters of porous cylindrical particles is considered as a hydro-dynamically equivalent to solid cylindrical core with concentric porous cylindrical shell. The Brinkman equation inside the porous cylindrical shell and the Stokes equation outside the porous cylindrical shell in their stream function formulations are used. The drag force acting on each porous cylindrical particle in a cell is evaluated. In certain limiting cases, drag force converges to pre-existing analytical results, such as, the drag on a porous circular cylinder and the drag on a solid cylinder in a Happel unit cell. Representative results are then discussed and presented in graphical forms. The hydrodynamic permeability of the membrane built up from porous particles is evaluated. The variation of hydrodynamic permeability with different parameters is graphically presented. Some new results are reported for flow pattern in the porous region. Being in resemblance with the model of colloid particles with a coating of porous layers due to adsorption phenomenon, results obtained through this model can be useful to study the membrane filtration process.     

Finite-difference analysis of natural convection flow of a viscous fluid in a porous channel with constant heat sources

The fully developed natural convection flow of a viscous fluid in a porous channel is modeled and studied numerically. The walls are kept at constant temperatures. The effects of various dimensionless parameters emerging in the model are studied graphically. It has been noted that the velocity and temperature both depend on the heat source and the free convection parameters.     

A note on plane Stokes flow past a shear free impermeable cylinder

Summary The slow steady two-dimensional motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in the unbounded region exterior to a shear free circular cylinder which is impermeable is examined. It is shown that the above problem requires a certain consistency condition for the existence of a solution. In addition, a circle theorem for the biharmonic equation is presented, for the above plane Stokes flow. Some examples are also given.     

A coherent analysis of Stokes flows under boundary conditions of friction type

This paper is concerned with the stationary and nonstationary flow of viscous incompressible fluid under boundary conditions of friction type, which are certain nonlinear boundary conditions similar to the so-called Signorini boundary condition in elasticity. We assume that the flow is governed by the linear Stokes equation, while the boundary condition is nonlinear. From the methodological viewpoint, the analysis is carried out in a coherent way, starting from study of the related boundary value problems for the stationary flow by means of the theory of variational inequalities, and getting to wellposedness of the initial boundary value problems for the nonstationary flow by means of the nonlinear semigroup theory. From the viewpoint of applications, we mention original motivations and include some new generalizations like the cases of anisotropic friction and inhomogeneous boundary value.     

Interactive computing methods for aeroelastic analysis of turbomachinery

An interaction viscous‐inviscid method for efficiently computing steady and unsteady viscous flows is presented. The inviscid domain is modeled using a finite element discretization of the full potential equation. The viscous region is modeled using a finite difference boundary layer technique. The two regions are simultaneously coupled using the transpiration approach. A time linearization technique is applied to this interactive method. For unsteady flows, the fluid is assumed to be composed of a mean or steady flow plus a harmonically varying small unsteady disturbance. Numerically exact nonreflecting boundary conditions are used for the far field conditions. Results for some steady and unsteady, laminar and turbulent flow problems are compared to linearized Navier‐Stokes or time‐marching boundary layer methods. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A variational conjugate gradient method for determining the fluid velocity of a slow viscous flow

The problem considered is that of determining the fluid velocity for linear hydrostatics Stokes flow of slow viscous fluids from measured velocity and fluid stress force on a part of the boundary of a bounded domain. A variational conjugate gradient iterative procedure is proposed based on solving a series of mixed well-posed boundary value problems for the Stokes operator and its adjoint. In order to stabilize the Cauchy problem, the iterations are ceased according to an optimal order discrepancy principle stopping criterion. Numerical results obtained using the boundary element method confirm that the procedure produces a convergent and stable numerical solution.     

Stokes flow with slip and Kuwabara boundary conditions

The forces experienced by randomly and homogeneously distributed parallel circular cylinder or spheres in uniform viscous flow are investigated with slip boundary condition under Stokes approximation using particle-in-cell model technique and the result compared with the no-slip case. The corresponding problem of streaming flow past spheroidal particles departing but little in shape from a sphere is also investigated. The explicit expression for the stream function is obtained to the first order in the small parameter characterizing the deformation. As a particular case of this we considered an oblate spheroid and evaluate the drag on it.     

MHD slow motion past a sphere

The slow motion of an incompressible, viscous electrically conducting fluid, in the presence of a uniform aligned magnetic field, past a sphere is studied. Solutions obtained by Chester, using Stokes’ approximations, and by Blerkom and Ludford, using Ossen’ approximations, are reviewed. Expressions for stream functions are obtained for MHD Stokes’ flow and Oseen’ flow respectively.     

Theoretical Justification and Error Analysis for Slender Body Theory

Slender body theory facilitates computational simulations of thin fibers immersed in a viscous fluid by approximating each fiber using only the geometry of the fiber centerline curve and the line force density along it. However, it has been unclear how well slender body theory actually approximates Stokes flow about a thin but truly three-dimensional fiber, in part due to the fact that simply prescribing data along a 1D curve does not result in a well-posed boundary value problem for the Stokes equations in ℝ³ . Here, we introduce a PDE problem to which slender body theory (SBT) provides an approximation, thereby placing SBT on firm theoretical footing. The slender body PDE is a new type of boundary value problem for Stokes flow where partial Dirichlet and partial Neumann conditions are specified everywhere along the fiber surface. Given only a 1D force density along a closed fiber, we show that the flow field exterior to the thin fiber is uniquely determined by imposing a fiber integrity condition: the surface velocity field on the fiber must be constant along cross sections orthogonal to the fiber centerline. Furthermore, a careful estimation of the residual, together with stability estimates provided by the PDE well-posedness framework, allows us to establish error estimates between the slender body approximation and the exact solution to the above problem. The error is bounded by an expression proportional to the fiber radius (up to logarithmic corrections) under mild regularity assumptions on the 1D force density and fiber centerline geometry. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Solvability of a nonstationary problem of a rigid body motion in the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in a pipe of arbitrary cross-section

The existence of a generalized weak solution is proved for the nonstationary problem of motion of a rigid body in the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid filling a cylindrical pipe of arbitrary cross-section. The fluid flow conforms to the Navier–Stokes equations and tends to the Poiseuille flow at infinity. The body moves in accordance with the laws of classical mechanics under the influence of the surrounding fluid and the gravity force directed along the cylinder. Collisions of the body with the boundary of the flow domain are not admitted and, by this reason, the problem is considered until the body approaches the boundary.     

A Theory of Exact Solutions for Annular Viscous Blobs

Summary. A new theory of exact solutions is presented for the problem of the slow viscous Stokes flow of a plane, doubly connected annular viscous blob driven by surface tension. The formulation reveals the existence of an infinite number of conserved quantities associated with the flow for a certain general class of initial conditions. These conserved quantities are associated with a class of exact solutions. This work is believed to provide the first exact solutions for the evolution of a doubly connected fluid region evolving under Stokes flow with surface tension. Received December 19, 1996; revised September 22, 1997, and accepted October 13, 1997