Electric structure of the combustion front in a homogeneous methane-air mixture

The electric structure of a plane laminar flame propagating through a homogeneous methane-air mixture in the absence of an external electric field is considered. The charged particle concentration and self-electric field distributions in the flame are found. The possibility of the ion-molecular reactions affecting the normal flame propagation velocity is estimated. Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 3–7, January–February, 1998.     

Flow of electrolytes in a porous medium

A two-scale model of ion transfer in a porous medium is obtained for one-dimensional horizontal flows under the action of a pressure gradient and an external electric field by the method of homogenization. Steady equations of electroosmotic flows in flat horizontal nano-sized slits separated by thin dielectric partitions are averaged over a small-scale variable. The resultant macroequations include Poisson’s equation for the vertical component of the electric field and Onsager’s relations between flows and forces. The total horizontal flow rate of the fluid is found to depend linearly on the pressure gradient and external electric field, and the coefficients in this linear relation are calculated with the use of microequations. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 162–173, July–August, 2008.     

Buoyancy-driven motion of a two-dimensional bubble or drop through a viscous liquid in the presence of a vertical electric field

The effect of an electric field on the buoyancy-driven motion of a two-dimensional gas bubble rising through a quiescent liquid is studied computationally. The dynamics of the bubble is simulated numerically by tracking the gas–liquid interface when an electrostatic field is generated in the vertical gap of the rectangular enclosure. The two phases of the system are assumed to be perfect dielectrics with constant but different permittivities, and in the absence of impressed charges, there is no free charge in the fluid bulk regions or at the interface. Electric stresses are supported at the bubble interface but absent in the bulk and one of the objectives of our computations is to quantify the effect of these Maxwell stresses on the overall bubble dynamics. The numerical algorithm to solve the free-boundary problem relies on the level-set technique coupled with a finite-volume discretization of the Navier–Stokes equations. The sharp interface is numerically approximated by a finite-thickness transition zone over which the material properties vary smoothly, and surface tension and electric field effects are accounted for by employing a continuous surface force approach. A multi-grid solver is applied to the Poisson equation describing the pressure field and the Laplace equation governing the electric field potential. Computational results are presented that address the combined effects of viscosity, surface tension, and electric fields on the dynamics of the bubble motion as a function of the Reynolds number, gravitational Bond number, electric Bond number, density ratio, and viscosity ratio. It is established through extensive computations that the presence of the electric field can have an important effect on the dynamics. We present results that show a substantial increase in the bubble’s rise velocity in the electrified system as compared with the corresponding non-electrified one. In addition, for the electrified system, the bubble shape deformations and oscillations are smaller, and there is a reduction in the propensity of the bubble to break up through increasingly larger oscillations.     

Effects of heat generation on g-Jitter induced natural convection flow in a channel with isothermal or isoflux walls

This paper discusses the behavior of g-jitter induced free convection in microgravity under the influence of a transverse magnetic field and in the presence of heat generation or absorption effects for a simple system consisting of two parallel impermeable infinite plates held at four different thermal boundary conditions. The governing equations for this problem are derived on the basis of the balance laws of mass, linear momentum, and energy modified to include the effects of thermal buoyancy, magnetic field and heat generation or absorption as well as Maxwell's equations. The fluid is assumed to be viscous, Newtonian and have constant properties except the density in the body force of the balance of linear momentum equation. The governing equations are solved analytically for the induced velocity and temperature distributions as well as for the electric field and total current for electrically-conducting and insulating walls. This is done for isothermal–isothermal, isoflux–isothermal, isothermal–isoflux and isoflux–isoflux thermal boundary conditions. Graphical results for the velocity amplitude and distribution are presented and discussed for various parametric physical conditions.     

Three-dimensional conical viscous incompressible fluid flows

New exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations are obtained for steady-state three-dimensional conical flows. In this class of flows the velocity decreases in inverse proportion to the distance from the source and the input equations reduce to two-dimensional ones. It is shown that in the spherical coordinate system the equations of motion reduce to a single nonlinear equation with respect to a scalar function which depends on the polar angles. The case in which this equation reduces to the integrable Liouville equation is discussed. This makes it possible to obtain a wide class of three-dimensional solutions in analytic form. Perm’. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 144–148, November–December, 1998. The work was carried out with financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 97-01-00063).     

Wave flows in a thin layer of a viscous liquid. Influence of a constant electric field

The influence of a constant transverse electric field on the dynamics of longwave, weakly nonlinear flow of a viscous dielectric liquid film down a vertical wall is studied. An amplitude integrodifferential equation in partial derivatives of the Kuramoto-Sivashinskii equation type, which describes the behavior of the free surface of the layer, is derived using the method of multiscale stretching. In the case considered, the potential energy of the electric field is a source of longwave perturbations, but, on the whole, secondary regimes are apparently nonlinearly steady. Probably, the electric polarization effects studied can be used as a factor that governs the dynamics of film flow. Computer Center, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk 660036. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 90–97, January–February, 1998.     

Optical Analysis and Qualitative Discrimination of Vortex-Flame Interaction in a Plane Premixed Shear Layer

To obtain practical schemes of vortex–flame interactions, a series of organized eddies formed in the plane premixed shear layer is investigated, instead of a single vortex ring or a single vortex tube. The plane premixed shear layer is first formed between two parallel uniform propane–air mixture streams. For getting clear qualitative pictures of vortex–flame interactions in the plane premixed shear layer, two extreme ignition points are assigned; one is assigned at the center of an organized eddy where the vortex motion plays an important role, the other at the midpoint between two adjacent organized eddies where the rolling-up motion prevails. A premixed flame is initiated by an electric discharge at one of the two assigned points and propagates either in the large scale organized eddy or along the interface between two uniform mixture streams. Propagation and deformation processes of the flame are observed using the simultaneously two-directional and high-speed Schlieren photography. The tangential velocity of organized eddy and the equivalence ratio of premixed shear flow are varied as two main parameters. The outline of propagating flame after the midpoint ignition is numerically analyzed by superposing the flame propagation having a constant burning velocity on the vortex flow field simulated with the discrete vortex method. The results obtained show that there exists another type of vortex–flame interaction in the plane shear layer in addition to the vortex bursting, and that it is caused by the rolling-up motion particular to the coherent structure in the plane shear layer and is simply named the vortex boosting. It is qualitatively concluded therefore that, in the ordinary turbulent premixed flames formed in the plane premixed shear layer, these two fundamental vortex-flame interactions get tangled with each other to augment the propagation velocity. An empirical expression which qualitatively takes into account of the effects of both vortex and chemical properties is finally proposed.     

Asymptotic solution of the problem of the action of a stamp on an elastic layer lying on the surface of a compressible fluid of infinite depth

This paper considers a two-dimensional linear unsteady problem of rigid-stamp indentation on an elastic layer of finite thickness lying on the surface of a compressible fluid of infinite depth. The Lamé equations holds for the elastic layer, and the wave equation for the fluid velocity potential. Using the Laplace and Fourier transforms, the problem is reduced to determining the contact stresses under the stamp from the solution of an integral equation of the first kind, whose kernel has a logarithmic singularity. An asymptotic solution of the problem is constructed for large times of interaction. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 131–142, March–April, 2008.     

Simple waves on a shear gas flow in a channel of constant cross section

The plane-parallel unsteady-state shear gas flow in a narrow channel of constant cross section is considered. The existence theorem of solutions in the form of simple waves of a set of equations of motion is proved for a class of isentropic flows with a monotone velocity profile over the channel depth. The exact solution described by incomplete beta-functions is found for a polytropic equation of state in a class of isentropic flows. Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 36–43, January–February, 1999.     

Properties of the particle pseudogas in a vertical fluid-particle flow

The rheological equations of state of the dispersed medium are obtained for one-dimensional flows of monodisperse systems in which the acceleration of the external body force field and the average interphase slip velocity are collinear, on the basis of an analysis of the pseudoturbulence properties. Ekaterinburg. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No.2, pp. 53–65, March–April, 1994.     

Wave motion of an ideal fluid in a narrow open channel

This paper considers a nonlinear integrodifferential model constructed for the motion of an ideal incompressible fluid in an open channel of variable section using the long-wave approximation. A characteristic equation for describing the perturbation propagation velocity in the fluid is derived. Necessary and sufficient conditions of generalized hyperbolicity for the equations of motion are formulated, and the characteristic form of the system is calculated. In the case of a channel of constant width, the model reduces to the Riemann integral invariants which are conserved along the characteristics. It is found that, during the evolution of the flow, the type of the equations of motion can change, which corresponds to long-wave instability for a certain velocity distribution along the channel width. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 61–71, March–April, 2009.     

Griffith crack moving in a piezoelectric strip

Summary  The dynamic problem of an impermeable crack of constant length 2a propagating along a piezoelectric ceramic strip is considered under the action of uniform anti-plane shear stress and uniform electric field. The integral transform technique is employed to reduce the mixed-boundary-value problem to a singular integral equation. For the case of a crack moving in the mid-plane, explicit analytic expressions for the electroelastic field and the field intensity factors are obtained, while for an eccentric crack moving along a piezoelectric strip, numerical results are determined via the Lobatto–Chebyshev collocation method for solving a resulting singular integral equation. The results reveal that the electric-displacement intensity factor is independent of the crack velocity, while other field intensity factors depend on the crack velocity when referred to the moving coordinate system. If the crack velocity vanishes, the present results reduce to those for a stationary crack in a piezoelectric strip. In contrast to the results for a stationary crack, applied stress gives rise to a singular electric field and applied electric field results in a singular stress for a moving crack in a piezoelectric strip. Received 14 August 2001; accepted for publication 24 September 2002 The author is indebted to the AAM Reviewers for their helpful suggestions for improving this paper. The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 70272043.     

On a gas source in a constant force field

The nonbarochronic regular partially invariant submodel of the equations of gas dynamics is studied. The submodel reduces to an implicit ordinary differential equation of the first order for an auxiliary function X = X(x). The physical quantities (velocity, density, and pressure) are expressed in terms of the function X. The properties of the solutions of the equation are investigated and interpreted physically in terms of gas motion. The existence of a shock-wave solution is proved. The properties of the shock adiabat are studied. It is shown that the results obtained are new and differ significantly from the results for the case of no constant force. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 3–16, November–December, 2006.     

Studying the Darcy-Stefan problem on phase transition in a saturated porous soil

The Cauchy problem for the Darcy-Stefan model, which describes the process of freezing (thawing) of a saturated porous soil with allowance for liquid-phase filtration, is considered. The model includes the Darcy law, the equation of liquid-phase incompressibility, the equation of absence of solid-phase motion, the equation of energy balance in the porous soil-saturating continuous medium system, and also the Stefan condition and the condition of continuity of the normal components of the velocity field at the interface boundary. The existence of generalized solutions of the problem satisfying an additional condition of entropy nondecreasing in a thermomechanical system (i.e., the second law of thermodynamics) is proved by the method of the kinetic equation. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 81–93, July–August, 2008.     

Shallow waves in a two-layer vortex fluid under a lid

A mathematical model of the vortex motion of an ideal two-layer fluid in a narrow straight channel is considered. The fluid motion in the Eulerian-Lagrangian coordinate system is described by quasilinear integrodifferential equations. Transformations of a set of the equations of motion which make it possible to apply the general method of studying integrodifferential equations of shallow-water theory, which is based on the generalization of the concepts of characteristics and the hyperbolicity for systems with operator functionals, are found. A characteristic equation is derived and analyzed. The necessary hyperbolicity conditions for a set of equations of motion of flows with a monotone-in-depth velocity profile are formulated. It is shown that the problem of sufficient hyperbolicity conditions is equivalent to the solution of a certain singular integral equation. In addition, the case of a strong jump in density (a heavy fluid in the lower layer and a quite lightweight fluid in the upper layer) is considered. A modeling that results in simplification of the system of equations of motion with its physical meaning preserved is carried out. For this system, the necessary and sufficient hyperbolicity conditions are given. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 68–80, May–June, 1999.     

Soliton propagation in a wide channel with an uneven bottom

Nonlinear waves of small amplitude in wide horizontal channels are considered. The channel depth is assumed to be a function weakly dependent on the transverse coordinate. To describe the waves, the two-dimensional Boussinesq equations in the form obtained in this paper are used. Stationary solutions in the form of a soliton followed by a set of sinusoidal waves are found. The phase velocity of these waves in the channel direction is equal to the soliton velocity. Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 147–155, July–August, 2000. The work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 99-01-00277).     

Kramers’ problem and the Knudsen minimum: a theoretical analysis using a linearized 26-moment approach

A set of linearized 26 moment equations, along with their wall boundary conditions, are derived and used to study low-speed gas flows dominated by Knudsen layers. Analytical solutions are obtained for Kramers’ defect velocity and the velocity-slip coefficient. These results are compared to the numerical solution of the BGK kinetic equation. From the analysis, a new effective viscosity model for the Navier–Stokes equations is proposed. In addition, an analytical expression for the velocity field in planar pressure-driven Poiseuille flow is derived. The mass flow rate obtained from integrating the velocity profile shows good agreement with the results from the numerical solution of the linearized Boltzmann equation. These results are good for Knudsen numbers up to 3 and for a wide range of accommodation coefficients. The Knudsen minimum phenomenon is also well captured by the present linearized 26-moment equations.     

Thermocapillary flow near a “cold corner”

The velocity field in a neighborhood of the point of contact between the free and solid boundaries is studied numerically for the problem of noncrucible zone melting in a two-dimensional model formulation. A distinct Prandtl boundary layer on the solid boundary and a Marangoni boundary layer on the free boundary and high gradients of the longitudinal velocity along the free boundary in the immediate vicinity of the “cold corner” are observed. It is found for the first time that with distance from the solid boundary, the velocity curve has a maximum, which is not typical of the ordinary flow near the solid boundary. Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 141–148, May–June, 1998.     

Unsteady filtration of a gas

The unsteady filtering flow of a gas described by the equations of motion proposed by Khristianovich in [1] is investigated. It is shown that for the gas flow in the pores a critical regime can develop when the reduced velocity (an analog of the Mach number in gas dynamics) is less than unity. The reduced velocity is the ratio of the flow velocity to the velocity of propagation of small filtering perturbations at a given point of the flow. St Petersburg. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 201–203, January–February, 1994.