Water surface waves in a horizontally oscillating container

This paper presents the results of experimental verification of Sretenskii’s linear theory of gravity waves in a container partially filled with water and oscillating horizontally according to the harmonic law. It has been shown that this theory predicts the existence of an infinite ordered countable set of generation modes of unstable waves. It has been experimentally confirmed that the waves are unstable if the container oscillation frequency is equal to the frequency of any odd standing-wave mode. At even eigenfrequencies of container oscillations, the theory predicts wave amplitudes up to a constant term. Experiment has shown that, in this case, the waves are stable and have minimum amplitudes.     

Nonlinear faraday waves in a parametrically excited circular cylindrical container

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

Nonlinear interfacial waves in a circular cylindrical container subjected to a vertical excitation

Singular perturbation theory of two-time scale expansions was developed in inviscid fluids to investigate the motion of single interface standing wave in a two-layer liquid-filled circular cylindrical vessel, which is subjected to a vertical periodical oscillation. It is assumed that the fluid in the circular cylindrical vessel is inviscid, incompressible and the motion is irrotational, a nonlinear amplitude equation including cubic nonlinear and vertically forced terms, was derived by the method of expansion of two-time scales without taking the influence of surface tension into account. By numerical computation, it is shown that different patterns of interface standing wave can be excited for different driving frequency and amplitude. We found that the interface wave mode become more and more complex as increasing of upper to lower layer density ratio γ$\gamma$. The traits of the standing interface wave were proved theoretically. In addition, the dispersion relation and nonlinear amplitude equation obtained in this article can reduce to the known results for a single fluid when γ=0,_h2→_h1$\gamma =0,h_2\to h_1$.     

Instability analysis of nonlinear surface waves in a circular cylindrical container subjected to a vertical excitation

Singular perturbation theory of two-time scale expansions was developed both in inviscid and weak viscous fluids to investigate the motion of single surface standing wave in a liquid-filled circular cylindrical vessel, which is subject to a vertical periodical oscillation. Firstly, it is assumed that the fluid in the circular cylindrical vessel is inviscid, incompressible and the motion is irrotational, a nonlinear evolution equation of slowly varying complex amplitude, which incorporates cubic nonlinear term, external excitation and the influence of surface tension, was derived from solvability condition of high-order approximation. It shows that when forced frequency is low, the effect of surface tension on mode selection of surface wave is not important. However, when forced frequency is high, the influence of surface tension is significant, and can not be neglected. This proved that the surface tension has the function, which causes free surface returning to equilibrium location. Theoretical results much close to experimental results when the surface tension is considered. In fact, the damping will appear in actual physical system due to dissipation of viscosity of fluid. Based upon weakly viscous fluids assumption, the fluid field was divided into an outer potential flow region and an inner boundary layer region. A linear amplitude equation of slowly varying complex amplitude, which incorporates damping term and external excitation, was derived from linearized Navier–Stokes equation. The analytical expression of damping coefficient was determined and the relation between damping and other related parameters (such as viscosity, forced amplitude and depth of fluid) was presented. The nonlinear amplitude equation and a dispersion, which had been derived from the inviscid fluid approximation, were modified by adding linear damping. It was found that the modified results much reasonably close to experimental results. Moreover, the influence both of the surface tension and the weak viscosity on the mode formation was described by comparing theoretical and experimental results. The results show that when the forcing frequency is low, the viscosity of the fluid is prominent for the mode selection. However, when the forcing frequency is high, the surface tension of the fluid is prominent. Finally, instability of the surface wave is analyzed and properties of the solutions of the modified amplitude equation are determined together with phase-plane trajectories. A necessary condition of forming stable surface wave is obtained and unstable regions are illustrated.     

Water waves in an elastic vessel

Linear and nonlinear analyses of water waves in an elastic vessel are carried out to study the dramatic phenomena of Dragon Wash as well as related controllable experiments. It is proposed that the capillary edge waves are generated by parametric resonance, which is shown to be a possible mechanism for both rectangular an circular vessels. For circular vessel, the normal geometric resonance is also operating, thus greatly enhance the dramatic effect. The mechanism of nonlinear mode-mode interaction is proposed for the generation of axisymmetric low-frequency gravity waves by the high- frequency external excitation. A simple model system is studied numerically to demonstrate explicitly this interaction mechanism.     

Marangoni-convection in a rotating liquid container

In a partially filled and constantly spinning container in zerogravity condition there arises under the action of an axial temperature gradient a thermo-capillary convection. This so-called Marangoni convection has been treated analytically for a directly imposed temperature gradient upon the free liquid surface and also for a constant but different temperature at the upper and lower disc wall. The streamfunction and circulation have been obtained, from which the velocity distribution could be determined.

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Marangoni-Konvektion in einer in einem Behälter rotierenden Flüssigkeit

Zusammenfassung Durch das Vorhandensein eines axialen Temperaturgradienten ergibt sich in einem mit konstanter Geschwindigkeit rotierenden teilweise mit Flüssigkeit gefüllten Behälter eine thermalkapillare Korrelation. Diese sogenannte Marangoni-Konvektion wird analytisch behandelt für eine lineare axiale und eine beliebige axiale Temperaturverteilung auf der Flüssigkeitsoberfläche. Stromfunktion und Zirkulation werden analytisch bestimmt. Daraus ergeben sich die Geschwindigkeitsverteilungen in radialer, zirkumferentialer und axialer Richtung.

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Nomenclature a radius of cylindrical container - b radius to free liquid surface - h height of container - I _m, K_m Modified Besselfunktions of first and second kind and orderm - k _j roots of bi-cubic equation (24 b) - k=b/a diameter ratio of location of free liquid surface and container wall - r, , z polar cylindrical coordinates - T(r, z) temperature distribution of liquid - u, v, w radial-, circumferential-, and axial velocity of the liquid, resp. - thermal expansion coefficient - dynamic viscosity of liquid - =/ kinematic viscosity - density of liquid - surface tension of liquid - _r , _rz shear stresses - (r, z) circulation - (r, z) stream function - ₀ speed of spin of container about axis of symmetry     

Coupled vibrations of a partially fluid-filled cylindrical container with an internal body including the effect of free surface waves

Internal bodies (baffles) are used as damping devices to suppress the fluid sloshing motion in fluid-structure interaction systems. An analytical method is developed in the present article to investigate the effects of a rigid internal body on bulging and sloshing frequencies and modes of a cylindrical container partially filled with a fluid. The internal body is a thin-walled and open-ended cylindrical shell that is coaxially and partially submerged inside the container. The interaction between the fluid and the structure is taken into account to calculate the sloshing and bulging frequencies and modes of the coupled system using the Rayleigh quotient, Ritz expansion and Galerkin method. It is shown that the present formulation is an appropriate and new approach to tackle the problem with good accuracy. The effects of fluid level, number of nodal diameters, internal body radius and submergence ratio on the dynamic characteristics of the coupled system are also investigated.     

Liquid oscillations in a prolate spheroidal container

Summary Free and forced oscillations of a frictionless liquid with a free surface in prolate spheroidal container geometries are investigated analytically. The container geometries treated here include all types of annular sectorial and truncated spheroids for which the natural frequencies of the sloshing liquid were determined. For a partially filled simple prolate spheroidal container the natural frequencies were evaluated numerically for different slenderness ratios and compared for a particular container with experimental results. The agreement of test data with the theoretical results is quite good. Equivalent cylindrical containers which exhibit equal liquid surface area and equal volume as the liquid in a spheroid show also good results and could be employed for design work of space vehicles.

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Flüssigkeitsschwingungen in Sphäroidbehältern

Übersicht Es wurden in annular-sektoriellen Sphäroidbehältern, die teilweise mit einer Flüssigkeit gefüllt sind, freie und erzwungene Schwingungen untersucht. Dabei wurden die Eigenfrequenzen der Flüssigkeit und ihre Antwort auf Translationsanregung für verschiedene Schlankheitsgrade des Sphäroids bestimmt. Für die Flüssigkeit in einem einfachen Sphäroid wurden die Eigenfrequenzen gemessen. Sie zeigen gute Übereinstimmung mit den theoretischen Ergebnissen. Das Schwappen in äquivalenten zylindrischen Behältern mit gleicher freier Oberfläche und gleichem Flüssigkeitsvolumen stimmt gut mit dem in einem Sphäroid überein, so daß die Ergebnisse eines Zylindertanks für den Entwurf von Raumflugkörpern mit Sphäroidbehältern benutzt werden können.

     

Particle tracking velocimetry beneath water waves. Part II: Water waves

 Particle Tracking techniques described earlier in the first part of this paper (Hering et al. 1997) were used to study the flow field beneath mechanically generated and wind induced flow fields. Experiments were conducted at three different wind/wave facilities (Heidelberg, Delft and San Diego). Particle Tracking allows an extensive study of drift velocities, wave orbital motion and turbulent Reynolds Stress beneath water waves. Monte Carlo simulations show, that the effects of the moving water surface on the calculation of mean properties of a flow can easily be avoided by Lagrangian measurements. Due to micro-scale wave breaking friction velocity profiles show a significant increase of turbulence towards the interface. Received: 12 July 1995/Accepted: 18 April 1997     

Motion of a porous sphere in a spherical container

The creeping motion of a porous sphere at the instant it passes the center of a spherical container has been investigated. The Brinkman's model for the flow inside the porous sphere and the Stokes equation for the flow in the spherical container were used to study the motion. The stream function (and thus the velocity) and pressure (both for the flow inside the porous sphere and inside the spherical container) are calculated. The drag force experienced by the porous spherical particle and wall correction factor is determined. To cite this article: D. Srinivasacharya, C. R. Mecanique 333 (2005).     

Evidence for a cyclonic regime in a precessing cylindrical container

We report experimental observations obtained by particle image velocimetry of the behavior of a flow driven by rotation and precession of a cylindrical container. Various hydrodynamical regimes are identified according to the value of the control parameter which is the ratio ?? of the precession frequency to the rotation frequency. In particular, when ?? is increased from small values, we have observed an induced differential rotation followed by the apparition of permanent cyclonic vortices.     

Sloshing behavior of a magnetic fluid in a cylindrical container

 Sloshing of a magnetic fluid in a laterally vibrated cylindrical container subject to a non-uniform vertical magnetic field was examined. Internal velocity profiles were measured using ultrasound Doppler velocimetry. The effect of the magnetic field on the resonant frequency of the fluid–container system was examined and the results were compared with theoretical results. The second and third peaks of the power spectra of velocity shifted to lower frequencies as the magnetic field was increased. It was observed that these derived frequency peaks were connected with swirling in the cylindrical container. Received: 9 May 2000 / Accepted: 29 May 2001 Published online: 29 November 2001     

Flow produced in a conical container by a rotating endwall

Numerical calculations have been carried out for flow in a truncated cone generated by rotation of one endwall. For both convergent (radius increasing with approach to the rotating endwall) and divergent geometries, vortex breakdown is suppressed beyond a certain angle of inclination of the sidewall. At the same time Moffat eddies of increasing strength and extent appear in the corner between the sidewall and the non-rotating endwall. For the divergent geometry, a zone of recirculation appears on the sidewall and eventually merges with the Moffat eddies. The flow phenomena identified from streamline patterns are consistent with the calculated variation of pressure around the periphery of the computational domain.     

Numerical simulation of rarefied suspension sedimentation in a container

The evolution of the large-scale velocity perturbations in a homogeneous suspension sedimenting in a rectangular container with rigid horizontal walls and periodic conditions on the vertical boundaries is considered. Numerical simulation of the point-particle motion showed that the density and velocity fluctuations decrease with time. The perturbations are damped due to reshaping of the sedimentation front and the nonlinear interaction of the different modes.     

Water waves generated by disturbance at an inertial surface

Laplace transform technique is used to solve an initial value problem describing waves generated by a disturbance created at the surface of water covered by an inertial surface composed of a thin but uniform distribution of floating particles. Green's integral theorem produces the transformed potential function from which the form of the inertial surface is obtained as an infinite integral after taking Laplace inversion. The method of stationary phase is then employed to evaluate this integral approximately for large time and distance.     

The rotation of a suspended axisymmetric ellipsoid in a magnetic field

Under the influence of a uniform and parallel magnetic field, a ferromagnetic fiber suspended in a Newtonian fluid rotates to align with the field direction. This study examines the field-induced rotation process for an individual non-Brownian axisymmetric ellipsoid suspended in a stagnant Newtonian fluid. Theoretical predictions are derived by a perturbation analysis for the limiting case where the strength of the applied magnetic field far exceeds the saturation magnetization of the ellipsoid. Numerical calculations are performed for the more general problem of an ellipsoid with known isotropic, non-hysteretic magnetic properties, using nickel and a stainless steel as examples. The analysis encompasses materials with field-induced, nonlinear magnetic properties, distinguishing these results from the simpler cases where the particle magnetization is either independent of, or linearly dependent on, the strength of the applied external field. In this study, predictions indicate that when the ellipsoid is magnetically saturated, the particle rotation is governed by the magnetoviscous time constant, _MV = _s/₀ M _s ² . It is found that the rotation rate depends strongly on the aspect ratio,a/b, of the ellipsoid, but only weakly on the dimensionless magnetization,M _s/H ₀. A geometric parameter for an ellipsoid, defined in eq. (2.5) - a, b major, minor semi-axes of an axisymmetric ellipsoid - D demagnetization tensor for an ellipsoid - D ^M magnetometric demagnetization tensor, the volume-average ofD ^P (r) - D ^P (r) position dependent demagnetization tensor, implicitly defined in eq. (2.12) - D _xx,D _yy,D _zz demagnetization factors, the diagonal elements ofD. Values for ellipsoids are defined in eq. (2.15) - F ^(m) magnetic force exerted on a body in a magnetic field - H _i ;H _i magnetic field inside a ferromagnetic body; magnitude ofH _i - H ₀;H ₀ magnetic field applied by external sources; magnitude ofH ₀ - h _i ;h _ix,h _iy Cartesian components of dimensionless internal magnetic field,h _i =H _i /H ₀ - I moment of inertia tensor - k geometric parameter for hydrodynamic resistance of a body rotating in a Newtonian fluid given in eq. (2.3) - L ^(h);L _z ^(h) hydrodynamic torque exerted on a rotating body; thez-component of the hydrodynamic torque - L ^(m);L _z ^(m) magnetic torque exerted on a magnetic body in a magnetic field, eq. (2.10); thez-component of the magnetic torque - M;M the magnetization, or dipole moment density, of a magnetic material; the magnitude ofM - M _s the saturation value ofM, approached by all ferromagnetic materials asH _i becomes large (figure 3) - m _s the dimensionless saturation magnetization,M _s/H ₀ - r position vector of a point within a ferromagnetic body - s dummy integration variable in eq. (2.5) - t time - U magnetoquasistatic potential energy of a magnetic body in a magnetic field, given in eq. (2.8) - u curve-fitting variable in eq. (4.1);u = logH _i - V volume of a magnetic particle; for an axisymmetric ellipsoid,V = (4/3) ab ² - x, y, z rectangular coordinate axes fixed in the ellipsoid (figure 1) - angle of inclination of the major axis of the ellipsoid with respect toH ₀ - _s viscosity of the Newtonian suspending medium - µ ₀ the magnetic permeability of free space,µ ₀ =4 · 10^–7H/m - _MV the magnetoviscous time constant, a characteristic time for a process involving a competition of viscous and magnetic stresses - the magnetic susceptibility of a magnetic material, = M/H _i - ; _z angular velocity of a rotating body; angular velocity about thez-axis of an ellipsoid, _z=–d/dt     

Axisymmetric thermocapillary convection in a slowly rotating annular cylindrical container

In a slowly rotating annular cylindrical container the free liquid surface (liquid-gas interface) is subjected to a temperature gradient in radial direction. The temperature dependent surface tension creates a shear stress on the interface which is transmitting a thermocapillary convection in the bulk of the liquid. For constant temperature T ₁ of the inner and T ₂ of the outer wall a steady Marangoni convection takes place, exhibiting a double vortex ring of equal directional flow. For time-oscillatory temperatures of the walls a time-dependent thermocapillary convection appears, which will create on the free liquid surface various wave patterns. They shall, depending on the forcing frequency of the temperature, exhibit resonance peaks. The velocity distribution and the response magnitude inside the container has been determined. Received on 3 September 1997