The motion of a small bubble in waves

The motion of a single spherical small bubble due to buoyancy in the ideal fluid with waves is investigated theoretically and experimentally in this article. Assuming that the bubble has no effect on the wave field, equations of a bubble motion are obtained and solved. It is found that the nonlinear effect increases with the increase of the bubble radius and the rising time. The rising time and the motion orbit are given by calculations and experiments. When the radius of a bubble is smaller than 0.5mm and the distance from the free surface is greater than the wave height, the results of the present theory are in close agreement with measurements. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China     

Ellipsoidal Oscillations of a Gas Bubble with Periodic Variation of the Surrounding Fluid Pressure

Ellipsoidal linear and nonlinear oscillations of a gas bubble under harmonic variation of the surrounding fluid pressure are studied. The system is considered under conditions in which periodic sonoluminescence of the individual bubble in a standing acoustic wave is observable. A mathematical model of the bubble dynamics is suggested; in this model, the variation of the gas/fluid interface shape is described correct to the square of the amplitude of the deformation of the spherical shape of the bubble. The character of the air bubble oscillations in water is investigated in relation to the initial bubble radius and the fluid pressure variation amplitude. It is shown that nonspherical oscillations of limited amplitude can occur outside the range of linearly stable spherical oscillations. In this case, both oscillations with a period equal to one or two periods of the fluid pressure variation and aperiodic oscillations can be observed.     

Specific features of the modeling of boiling-fluid flows

Experiments show that in low-and high-velocity flows the boiling process is fundamentally different: in the former, the fluid boils on the walls, and in the latter in the volume. In high-velocity flows, the boiling intensity is orders of magnitude greater. In modeling fast and slow flows, the number of bubbles, which is a free parameter of the model and must be specified, differs by orders of magnitude. When high-speed flows of different kinds are modeled (vessel depressurization, nozzle flows) the number of bubbles specified also differs by orders of magnitude. In this study, we formulate the hypothesis that in both kinds of flows the process of boiling starts similarly, namely, on the walls. However, in high-speed flows the number of bubbles increases by orders of magnitude due to bubble fragmentation. As a result of intense fragmentation, the system “forgets” the initial number of bubbles and the process becomes volume boiling. This approach makes it possible to construct a universal model of boiling. To test this hypothesis, we constructed a mathematical model which takes into account the possibility of bubble fragmentation due to the instability developing under the action of centrifugal accelerations of the bubble surface. This model was used to calculate the process of depressurization of a high-pressure vessel. The calculations demonstrated that, for any initial number of bubbles, 1 ms after depressurization the bubble number attains the same level. Bubble fragmentation takes place in “self-sustained detonation waves”. The stationary structure of detonation waves in a boiling fluid is investigated. A scheme of the wave structure according to which the wave consists of a shock wave and a relaxation zone is proposed. Calculations of a boiling-fluid flow through a Laval nozzle reveal the periodic appearance of detonation waves. Accordingly, nozzle flows should be accompanied by significant oscillations of the parameters.     

Bilinear Bäcklund transformation,Lax pair and interactions of nonlinear waves for a generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear wave equation in nonlinear optics/fluid mechanics/plasma physics

In this paper, outcomes of the study on the Bäcklund transformation, Lax pair, and interactions of nonlinear waves for a generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear wave equation in nonlinear optics, fluid mechanics, and plasma physics are presented. Via the Hirota bilinear method, a bilinear Bäcklund transformation is obtained, based on which a Lax pair is constructed. Via the symbolic computation, mixed rogue–solitary and rogue–periodic wave solutions are derived. Interactions between the rogue waves and solitary waves, and interactions between the rogue waves and periodic waves, are studied. It is found that (1) the one rogue wave appears between the two solitary waves and then merges with the two solitary waves; (2) the interaction between the one rogue wave and one periodic wave is periodic; and (3) the periodic lump waves with the amplitudes invariant are depicted. Furthermore, effects of the noise perturbations on the obtained solutions will be investigated.

     

Wave motion in a gravity field on the free surface and stratification interface of a fluid with stratified inhomogeneity. Nonlinear analysis

Regularities of the nonlinear gravitational wave motion in a two-layer density-stratified fluid are investigated for a finite thickness of the upper, lighter, layer. The characteristics of the nonlinear internal resonant interaction of the gravity waves generated by the free surface of the upper layer and the medium interface are considered. It is shown that in second-order calculations both degenerate (two-wave) and secondary combined (three-wave) resonant interactions may be realized.     

Global volume conservation in unsteady free surface flows with energy absorbing far‐end boundaries

A wave absorption filter for the far‐end boundary of semi‐infinite large reservoirs is developed for numerical simulation of unsteady free surface flows. Mathematical model is based on finite volume solution of the Navier–Stokes equations and depth‐integrated continuity equation to track the free surface. The Sommerfeld boundary condition is applied at the far‐end of the truncated computational domain. A dissipation zone is formed by applying artificial pressure on water surface to dissipate the kinetic energy of the outgoing waves. The computational scheme is tested to verify the conservation of total fluid volume in the domain for long simulation durations. Combination of the Sommerfeld boundary and dissipation zone can effectively minimize reflections and prevent cumulative changes in total fluid volume in the domain. Solitary wave, nonlinear periodic waves and irregular waves are simulated to illustrate the numerical developments. Earthquake excited surface waves and nonlinear hydrodynamic pressures in a dam–reservoir are computed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Three-dimensional divergent waves on a model viscoelastic coating in a potential incompressible fluid flow

Generation of three-dimensional nonlinear waves on a model viscoelastic coating in a potential flow of an incompressible fluid is studied. Periodic nonlinear waves enhanced by the development of quasi-static instability (wave divergence) are considered. The coating is modeled by a flexible flat plate supported by a distributed nonlinearly-elastic spring foundation. Plate flexure is described on the basis of the Karman equations of the theory of thin plates. Perturbations of surface pressure in the potential flow are found in the small slope approximation to an accuracy to terms of the second order of smallness. Numerical simulation reveals a jump-like transition from two-dimensional nonlinear waves to three-dimensional wave structures, which are also observed in experiments.     

Two-Dimensional Pressure Waves in a Fluid with Bubbles

The specific features of wave evolution in a fluid with a finite bubble zone are studied. The two-dimensional effects are taken into account. The results for two-dimensional wave evolution in a uniform bubbly fluid are also presented.     

A cylindrical analog of trochoidal gerstner waves

This paper investigates isobaric motions for which the values of the pressure are conserved in fluid particles. In it, a new analytic exact particular solution of nonlinear multidimensional hydrodynamic equations is obtained; it describes a trochoidal wave in cylindrical geometry. It is also proved that trochoidal waves in cylindrical and plane geometry exhaust the class of nonlinear isobaric motions. Here and below by a wave in plane geometry we mean a wave in a uniform gravitational field which is characterized by the wave vector k. It is obvious that waves in both plane and cylindrical geometry are two-dimensional motions, since the fluid particles in motion are fixed in the plane and the motions in parallel planes are the same. The trochoidal wave in cylindrical geometry is of interest, since it describes a nonlinear wave on the surface of a cavity in a rotating fluid, a situation which is frequently encountered in applications.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 145–150, September–October, 1985.     

Nonlinear waves propagating over a conducting ideal fluid surface in an electric field

For wave perturbations of a heavy conducting fluid in an electric field orthogonal to the undisturbed surface evolutionary equations quadratically nonlinear in amplitude are obtained. Equations for the long-wave approximation are derived. A method of deriving the nonlinear and simple-wave equations is proposed. Solutions for solitary waves are considered. It is shown that even a weak electric field significantly affects the form of the soliton solution, which is related with fundamental changes in the spectrum of the linear waves.     

Derivation of a higher order nonlinear Schrödinger equation for weakly nonlinear Rossby waves

In the paper, with the help of a perturbation expansion method a new higher order nonlinear Schrödinger (HNLS) equation is derived to describe nonlinear modulated Rossby waves in the geophysical fluid. Using this equation, the modulational wave trains are discussed. It is found that the higher order terms favor the instability growth of modulational disturbances superimposed on uniform Rossby wave trains, but the instability region becomes narrower. In addition, the latitude and uniform background basic flow are found to affect the instability growth rate and instability region of uniform Rossby wave train. However, for a geostrophic flow the background basic flow does not affect the modulational instability of uniform Rossby wave train.     

Features of how surface waves form in a cylinder made of a hard material and filled with a fluid

The properties of harmonic surface waves in an elastic cylinder made of a rigid material and filled with a fluid are studied. The problem is solved using the dynamic equations of elasticity and the equations of motion of a perfect compressible fluid. It is shown that two surface (Stoneley and Rayleigh) waves exist in this waveguide system. The first normal wave generates a Stoneley wave on the inner surface of the cylinder. If the material is rigid, no normal wave exists to transform into a Rayleigh wave. The Rayleigh wave on the outer surface forms on certain sections of different dispersion curves. The kinematic and energy characteristics of surface waves are analyzed. As the wave number increases, the phase velocities of all normal waves, except the first one, tend to the sonic velocity in the fluid from above __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 48–62, September 2007.     

Effect of permeability on the instability of a non-Newtonian film down a porous inclined plane

A thin film of a power–law fluid flowing down a porous inclined plane is considered. It is assumed that the flow through the porous medium is governed by the modified Darcy’s law together with Beavers–Joseph boundary condition for a general power–law fluid. Under the assumption of small permeability relative to the thickness of the overlying fluid layer, the flow is decoupled from the filtration flow through the porous medium and a slip condition at the bottom is used to incorporate the effects of the permeability of the porous substrate. Applying the long-wave theory, a nonlinear evolution equation for the thickness of the film is obtained. A linear stability analysis of the base flow is performed and the critical condition for the onset of instability is obtained. The results show that the substrate porosity in general destabilizes the film flow system and the shear-thinning rheology enhances this destabilizing effect. A weakly nonlinear stability analysis reveals the existence of supercritical stable and subcritical unstable regions in the wave number versus Reynolds number parameter space. The numerical solution of the nonlinear evolution equation in a periodic domain shows that the fully developed nonlinear solutions are either time-dependent modes that oscillate slightly in the amplitude or time independent stable two-dimensional nonlinear waves with large amplitude referred to as ‘permanent waves’. The results show that the shape and the amplitude of the nonlinear waves are strongly influenced by the permeability of the porous medium and the shear-thinning rheology.     

NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF SMALL-AMPLITUDE INITIAL PERTURBATIONS ON RM INSTABILITY

采用Navier-Stokes 方程对入射激波及其反射激波连续诱导小振幅扰动界面的Richtmyer-Meshkov 不稳定性增长过程进行了二维数值模拟,分析了单模和随机多模两种不同初始形态的界面上钉结构和泡结构在反射激波作用前后的发展特性. 研究结果发现：单模扰动的初始界面形态对反射激波前、后界面的扰动增长都有影响,反射激波前的界面形态信息可以通过钉和泡结构之间的反转传递到反射激波过后. 扰动界面上钉结构的发展速度控制了界面混合区总体的发展速度,反射激波前界面上发展成具有完整冠部形态的钉,在反射激波后会反转成复杂的泡结构,此泡结构对反射激波后钉的发展不利. 随机多模界面显示了与单模界面类似的发展规律,但随机多模界面上的复杂泡结构分布的不对称性使得其对钉结构增长的拖曳效应相对要弱,这导致了相似扰动波长下多模随机界面的扰动发展相对单模界面扰动发展要快.     

An explicit formulation for the evolution of nonlinear surface waves interacting with a submerged body

An explicit formulation to study nonlinear waves interacting with a submerged body in an ideal fluid of infinite depth is presented. The formulation allows one to decompose the nonlinear wave–body interaction problem into body and free‐surface problems. After the decomposition, the body problem satisfies a modified body boundary condition in an unbounded fluid domain, while the free‐surface problem satisfies modified nonlinear free‐surface boundary conditions. It is then shown that the nonlinear free‐surface problem can be further reduced to a closed system of two nonlinear evolution equations expanded in infinite series for the free‐surface elevation and the velocity potential at the free surface. For numerical experiments, the body problem is solved using a distribution of singularities along the body surface and the system of evolution equations, truncated at third order in wave steepness, is then solved using a pseudo‐spectral method based on the fast Fourier transform. A circular cylinder translating steadily near the free surface is considered and it is found that our numerical solutions show excellent agreement with the fully nonlinear solution using a boundary integral method. We further validate our solutions for a submerged circular cylinder oscillating vertically or fixed under incoming nonlinear waves with other analytical and numerical results. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

小扰动界面形态对RM不稳定性影响的数值分析

采用Navier-Stokes 方程对入射激波及其反射激波连续诱导小振幅扰动界面的Richtmyer-Meshkov 不稳定性增长过程进行了二维数值模拟,分析了单模和随机多模两种不同初始形态的界面上钉结构和泡结构在反射激波作用前后的发展特性. 研究结果发现:单模扰动的初始界面形态对反射激波前、后界面的扰动增长都有影响,反射激波前的界面形态信息可以通过钉和泡结构之间的反转传递到反射激波过后. 扰动界面上钉结构的发展速度控制了界面混合区总体的发展速度,反射激波前界面上发展成具有完整冠部形态的钉,在反射激波后会反转成复杂的泡结构,此泡结构对反射激波后钉的发展不利. 随机多模界面显示了与单模界面类似的发展规律,但随机多模界面上的复杂泡结构分布的不对称性使得其对钉结构增长的拖曳效应相对要弱,这导致了相似扰动波长下多模随机界面的扰动发展相对单模界面扰动发展要快.      

Nonlinear faraday waves in a parametrically excited circular cylindrical container

IntroductionIn 1 83 1 ,Faraday[1]reportedhisexperimentalobservationofsurfacewavesindifferentfluidscoveringahorizontalplatesubjectedtoaverticalvibration ,andheobservedthesurfacestandingwavesoffluidsliketheteethofaveryshortcoarsecomb .Heremarksthatthesesurfacewaveshaveafrequencyequaltoonehalfthatoftheexcitation .ThisisthefamousFaradayexperiment.WedesignatethosefluidsurfacewavesformedbyverticallyexcitationandhaveafrequencyequaltoonehalfthatoftheexcitationasFaradaywaves.FollowingthisproblemMatth…     

Formation of Regions with High Energy and Pressure Gradients at the Free Surface of Liquid Dielectric in a Tangential Electric Field

The nonlinear dynamics of the free surface of an ideal incompressible non-conducting fluid with a high dielectric constant subjected to a strong horizontal electric field is simulated using the method of conformal transformations. It is shown that in the initial stage of interaction of counter-propagating periodic waves of significant amplitude, there is a direct energy cascade leading to energy transfer to small scales. This results in the formation of regions with a steep wave front at the fluid surface, in which the dynamic pressure and the pressure exerted by the electric field undergo a discontinuity. It has been demonstrated that the formation of regions with high gradients of the electric field and fluid velocity is accompanied by breaking of surface waves; the boundary inclination angle tends to 90?, and the surface curvature increases without bound.     

Formation and Amplification of Shock Waves in a Bubble “Cord”

The structure and dynamics of the wave field generated by a bubble system in the form of an axial bubble cylinder (cord) excited by a plane shock wave propagating along the axis in an axisymmetric shock tube are numerically examined. It is shown that consecutive excitation of oscillations of the bubble zone results in formation of a quasi-steady shock wave in the cord and in the ambient liquid. Results of the numerical analysis of the maximum amplitude of the resulting wave as a function of problems parameters are described.__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 46–52, September–October, 2005.     

Free surface flow under gravity and surface tension due to an applied pressure distribution: I Bond number greater than one-third

We consider steady free surface two-dimensional flow due to a localized applied pressure distribution under the effects of both gravity and surface tension in water of constant depth, and in the presence of a uniform stream. The fluid is assumed to be inviscid and incompressible, and the flow is irrotational. The behavior of the forced nonlinear waves is characterized by three parameters: the Froude number, F, the Bond number, τ > 1/3, and the magnitude and sign of the pressure forcing parameter ɛ. The fully nonlinear wave problem is solved numerically by using a boundary integral method. For small amplitude waves and F < 1 but not too close to 1, linear theory gives a good prediction for the numerical solution of the nonlinear problem in the case of bifurcation from the uniform flow. As F approaches 1, the nonlinear terms need to be taken account of. In this case the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation is found to be an appropriate model to describe bifurcations from an unforced solitary wave. In general, it is found that for given values of F < 1 and τ > 1/3, there exists both elevation and depression waves. In some cases, a limiting configuration in the form of a trapped bubble occurs in the depression wave solutions.