Effect of a Standing Acoustic Wave on the Development of Large-Scale Convection in a Horizontal Layer

The effect of a standing acoustic wave on the development of long-wave convective perturbations in a horizontal layer with thermally insulated boundaries is investigated. The main two-dimensional flow is determined. A nonlinear amplitude equation with spatially-periodic coefficients is derived for investigating the stability of the main flow and secondary convection flows in the neighborhood of the stability threshold. The intensity of the acoustic field is assumed to be low. It is shown that the acoustic action leads to destabilization of the layer. Plane and three-dimensional perturbations are critical at large and small Prandtl numbers, respectively. Nonlinear one-dimensional steady-state solutions of the amplitude equation are obtained and their stability is investigated.     

Stability of Thermocapillary Flow in a Flat Layer with Allowance for the Soret Effect

The stability of thermocapillary two-component liquid flow is studied taking into account thermal diffusion. An explicit expression is obtained to construct neutral Marangoni numbers under the assumption of monotonicity of perturbations. The thermocapillary and hydrodynamic instability mechanisms are considered. It is shown that plane perturbations are the greatest hazard to the stability of return flow.__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 86–92, September–October, 2005.     

Problem of Critical Convective Flows in Horizontal-Cylindrical Cavities

The results of an analysis of the linear perturbations of equilibrium of a viscous heat-conducting fluid or gas in cavities with simple geometric cross-sections are given. Both plane motions and motions periodic in the direction of the horizontal generator of the boundary surface are considered. Variants in which the acceleration of the mass force field can be both constant and periodically modulated are calculated. The solutions of the problem for the stream function (or the vertical velocity component) and the temperature are represented in the form of double or triple Fourier series. For the coefficients in the expansions an infinite system of equations which admits reduction is obtained. The results are found to be in good agreement with the known data.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, 2005, pp. 14–24.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Pylaev.     

Behavior of a Cylindrical Drop under Multi-Frequency Vibration

The behavior of an inviscid-fluid drop surrounded by a different fluid under the action of multi-frequency vibration is investigated. The second-order effects in the vibration amplitude are studied. A superharmonic resonance is registered. The stability of the forced oscillations with respect to small perturbations is studied. The condition of the onset of parametric resonance is found. An average drop shape is investigated. The two-frequency case is considered as a particular case of multi-frequency vibration.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, 2005, pp. 18–28.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Alabuzhev and Lyubimov.     

An optimality condition on the minimum energy threshold in subcritical instabilities

For flows subject to subcritical instabilities the stability of the basic flow can be guaranteed only for perturbations of energy lower than a critical threshold δ. The computation of this threshold for the Navier–Stokes equations is still out of reach. More surprisingly, this computation has not been attempted for low dimensional models of subcritical transition. In this Note guidelines are provided for the computation of the minimum energy threshold δ and of the corresponding nonlinear optimal perturbations. In particular it is demonstrated that nonlinear optimal perturbations are constrained by the requirement that they must satisfy a local minimum condition. These results are applied to the analysis of four-dimensional models proposed in F. Waleffe, Phys. Fluids 7 (1995) and Phys. Fluids 9 (1997). To cite this article: C. Cossu, C. R. Mecanique 333 (2005).     

Stability of the boundary layer of a non-Newtonian liquid obeying a power-type rheological law

The stability of the stationary (steady-state) laminar boundary layer of a non-Newtonian liquid obeying a power-type rheological law at a semiinfinite plate situated in a longitudinal flow is analyzed. An approximate formula is derived for estimating the minimum Reynolds number at which the flow loses stability with respect to slight two-dimensional perturbations. Calculations of the point of stability loss for aqueous solutions of carboxyl methyl cellulose are presented.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 121–124, March–April, 1971.     

Stability of the Interface of a Liquid-Suspension System under High-Frequency Nonlinearly Polarized Vibration

The stability of the state of a two-layer system consisting of a homogeneous liquid and a solid particle suspension in the same liquid with a plane interface between them is investigated. The system performs both horizontal and vertical high-frequency vibration with an arbitrary phase shift. It is shown that a mean flow develops under the simultaneous action of both horizontal and vertical vibration; quantitative flow stability characteristics are determined numerically using the differential sweep method. It is shown that a traveling wave relief exists on the liquid-suspension interface. Transverse oscillations in phase with longitudinal oscillations destabilize the entire system. The presence of an oscillation phase shift can lead to an increase in the stability limit; the direction of motion of the wave relief can differ depending on the value of the phase shift. Instability of the system in the presence of strictly vertical vibration is observed, the crisis being associated with longwave monotonic perturbations.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, 2005, pp. 3–13.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Lobov, Lyubimov, and Lyubimova.     

Experimental investigation of the stability of a supersonic boundary layer on a plate with blunting of the leading edge

In an aerodynamic tube, an experimental investigation of the development of small natural perturbations in a laminar boundary layer on a plate was made. The measurements were made using a thermoanemometric method with a Mach number M = 2 and a unit Reynolds number Re₁ = 3.1·10⁶ m^–1. An investigation of the effect of blunting of the leading edge of the plate on the development of the perturbations was made. It is shown that blunting decreases the range of unstable frequencies and the region of instability and increases the critical Reynolds number of the loss of stability. In the initial section of the plate there is a rise in the perturbations of all frequencies up to a maximal value, whose coordinate is inversely proportional to the frequency. The development of perturbations in this region is insensitive to the state of the boundary layer. The position of the maximum does not change with blunting of the leading edge.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 65–70, July–August, 1977.     

Stability of Singularly Perturbed Systems with Structural Perturbations. General Theory

Singularly perturbed systems with structural perturbations are analyzed for stability. New sufficient conditions of asymptotic stability and uniform asymptotic stability are established. The systems in question are widely used in control theory, engineering, etc     

Instability in the higher modes of a nonlinear equation

The linear approximation is used to study the stability of two- and three-dimensional higher-order modes of a nonlinear wave equation against exponentially increasing perturbations. For all the nonlinear models considered the higher modes are unstable; the number of exponentially increasing perturbations and their growth rate are determined by the mode number and the form of the nonlinear relationship. Numerical tests are described in the parabolic approximation on the stability of the first axially symmetric mode against small amplitude perturbations and the conditions are determined under which higher-order modes can be observed.     

Local vortices in a differentially rotating flow

A time-dependent local elliptic vortex in a differential two-dimensional incompressible fluid flow is considered. Nonlinear oscillations of vortices of the cyclonic and anticyclonic types are described. It is found that the evolutionary tracks can be both closed and unclosed. The former correspond to the azimuthal oscillations of the principal axis and the latter to the complete rotational state of the elliptic vortex. Steady-state solutions are also obtained; they are represented by ellipses elongated or compressed along the flow. Small oscillations of the vortex equilibrium figures are investigated and a general dispersion relation for arbitrary perturbations is derived. The stability criterion is found.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, 2005, pp. 81–93. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Antonov, Baranov, and Kondratev.     

Interaction of Small Hydrodynamic Perturbations with a Nonequilibrium Region in a Gas Flow

The problem of interaction of small hydrodynamic perturbations with a nonequilibrium region in a Gas flow with different models of energy pumping is solved. One-dimensional and two-dimensional interactions are considered. A range of system parameters is found in which interaction occurs in a resonant manner (significant amplification of perturbations is observed). It is demonstrated that interaction of vortex perturbations with the nonequilibrium region generates heat waves. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 58–64, November–December, 2005.     

Parametric excitation of Rayleigh convection in the presence of a variable heat flux on the free surface

The onset of Rayleigh convection in a semi-infinite fluid layer is investigated for a heat flux harmonically modulated along the normal to the surface of the fluid. The problem of the evolution of the velocity and temperature perturbations is solved numerically by means of a finite-difference method. The stability limits and the characteristics of the critical perturbations are determined as functions of the Prandtl numbers. The behavior of the critical Rayleigh number is studied for finite layer depths.Perm'. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 40–44, November–December, 1996.     

Effect of electrohydrodynamic interaction on the stability of a flat plate laminar boundary layer

The stability of a unipolarly charged electrohydrodynamic boundary layer on a flat dielectric plate along which an electric current flows between electrodes located on the plate is investigated within the framework of the linear theory. The solution of the steady-state problem is obtained on the basis of methods developed earlier for conditions typical of aerodynamical experiments and various electric currents and electrode voltages. The effect of the interaction between perturbations of the electric and hydrodynamic flow parameters on the flow stability is estimated within the framework of the locally homogeneous approximation. This effect turns out to be insignificant under the conditions considered. It is shown that steady-state electrohydrodynamic action on the main flow makes it possible to obtain “accelerating” velocity profiles with increased absolute values of the second derivative in the transverse direction. This ensures a significant increase in the critical Reynolds numbers of loss of stability and a narrowing of the growing perturbation wavenumber range.     

Numerical prediction of vortex shedding behind a square cylinder

It is common knowledge that flow around bluff bodies exhibits oscillatory behaviour. The aim of the present study is to compute the steady two-dimensional flow around a square cylinder at different Reynolds numbers and to determine the onset of unsteadiness through a linear stability analysis of the steady flow. Stability of the steady flow to small two-dimensional perturbations is analysed by computing the evolution of these perturbations. An analysis of various time-stepping techniques is carried out to select the most appropriate technique for predicting the growth of the perturbations and hence the stability of the flow. The critical Reynolds number is determined from the growth rate of the perturbations. Computations are then made for periodic unsteady flow at a Reynolds number above the critical value. The predicted Strouhal number agrees well with experimental data. Heat transfer from the cylinder is also studied for the unsteady laminar flow.     

Invariant Sets of Difference Systems and Their Stability

For a system of difference equations, we establish conditions for the existence and stability of invariant sets, substantiate the reduction principle, and study the behavior of an invariant set under small perturbations. __________ Translated from Neliniini Kolyvannya, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 258–264, April–June, 2005.     

Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性流体混合区发展的实验研究

使用矩形激波管,在马赫数分别为$M=1.5$和1.7的条件下实验研究了气/液界面 上(即Atwood数$A$接近1时)由Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性引起的流体混合现象. 得到 了气/液界面上Richtmyer-Meshkov不稳定性后期流体混合区域宽度随时间的发展呈现出线 性关系的结果,即$h \propto t$. 比较了不同马赫数和初始扰动下的发展情况,发现当 马赫数增加时,同一时间混合区域 宽度随之增加,混合区域宽度增长变快;而相比于波长差别不大的弱多模态初始扰动(无人 为干扰界面), 当界面初始扰动获得随机外界干扰时,界面混合区域具有较大的宽度以及增 长速度. 并且增加激波马赫数和初始扰动多模态性,流体混合程度更为剧烈.     

The torsional stability of a cylinder subject to finite perturbations

The problem of torsional stability of a circular cylinder made from a compressible nonlinearly elastic material is solved for finite perturbations. In contrast to the classical theory of bifurcation, an infinite sequence of steady states that bounds the domain of allowed initial perturbations is constructed. The applicability of the classical three-dimensional linear theory of stability is evaluated. Voronezh University, Russia. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 133–136, March, 2000.     

Certain types of vibrationally convective instability of a two-dimensional fluid layer in zero gravity

The stability of a new equilibrium configuration possible in a two-dimensional layer of nonisothermal fluid executing high-frequency vibrations in zero gravity is investigated in the framework of the linear theory. A study is made on the basis of the equations of vibrational convection. Instability with respect to one-dimensional and two-dimensional perturbations is studied. An elementary exact solution is obtained for the one-dimensional perturbations. Vibrationally connective instability of a fluid in zero gravity has been studied in a number of papers [1-3].Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 4–7, September–October, 1987.The author expresses his gratitude to G. Z. Gershuni for his constant interest in my work.     

Asymptotic Solutions of the Equations for a Viscous Heat-Conducting Compressible Medium

Small nonstationary perturbations in a viscous heat-conducting compressible medium are analyzed on the basis of the linearization of the complete system of hydrodynamic equations for small Knudsen numbers (Kn ≪ 1). It is shown that the density and temperature perturbations (elastic perturbations) satisfy the same wave equation which is an asymptotic limit of the hydrodynamic equations far from the inhomogeneity regions of the medium (rigid, elastic or fluid boundaries) as M _a = v/a → 0, where v is the perturbed velocity and a is the adiabatic speed of sound. The solutions of the new equation satisfy the first and second laws of thermodynamics and are valid up to the frequencies determined by the applicability limits of continuum models. Fundamental solutions of the equation are obtained and analyzed. The boundary conditions are formulated and the problem of the interaction of a spherical elastic harmonic wave with an infinite flat surface is solved. Important physical effects which cannot be described within the framework of the ideal fluid model are discussed.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, 2005, pp. 76–87.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Stolyarov.