Nonlinear Marangoni instability in dielectric superposed fluids

Summary The nonlinear Marangoni instability of two dielectric superposed fluids is investigated. The system is stressed by a normal electric field such that it allows for the presence of surface charges at the interface. The method of multiple scale perturbations is used in order to obtain uniformly valid expansions. Two nonlinear Schrödinger equations describing the perturbed system are obtained. One of these equations is used to describe analytically and numerically the necessary conditions for stability and instability near the marginal state, while the other equation is used to obtain the nonlinear electrohydrodynamic cutoff wavenumber separating stable and unstable disturbances for the system.     

Electrohydrodynamic linear stability of finitely conducting flows through porous fluids with mass and heat transfer

In this work, a linear stability analysis is used to investigate a capillary surface waves between two horizontal finite fluid layers. The system is acted upon by a vertical periodic electric field. The problem examines few representatives of porous media. It is also includes finite conductivity, mass and heat transfer. It is assumed that the basic flow is two-dimensional streaming flow. A general dispersion relation governing the linear stability is derived. In contrast with our previous work [23], the present problem shows that the stability criterion depends on the mass and heat transfer parameter. The present study recovers some special cases upon appropriate data choices. The presence of finite conductivity’s together with the dielectric permeability’s make the uniform electric field plays a dual role in the stability criterion. This shows some analogy with the nonlinear stability theory. In addition, the mass and heat transfer parameter as well as the Darcy’s coefficients play a stabilizing role in the stability picture. In case of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability, by means of the Whittaker technique, the parametric excitation of the electrohydrodynamic surface waves is obtained. The transition curve equations are calculated up to the fourth order for a small dimensionless parameter. The analytical results are numerically confirmed.     

Nonlinear stability and chaos in electrohydrodynamics

Using the method of multiple scales, the nonlinear instability problem of two superposed dielectric fluids is studied. The applied electric filed is taken into account under the influence of external modulations near a point of bifurcation. A time varying electric field is superimposed on the system. In addition, the viscosity and variable gravity force are considered. A generalized equation governing the evolution of the amplitude is derived in marginally unstable regions of parameter space. A bifurcation analysis of the amplitude equation is carried out when the dissipation due to viscosity and the control parameter are both assumed to be small. The solution of a nonlinear equation in which parametric and external excitations are obtained analytically and numerically. The method of generalized synchronization is applied to determine the equations that describe the modulation of the amplitude and phase. These equations are used to determine the steady state equations. Frequency response curves are presented graphically. The stability of the proposed solution is determined applying Liapunov's first method. Numerical solutions are presented graphically for the effects of the different equation parameters on the system stability, response and chaos.     

On blowup of solutions to a system of equations of ion sound waves in plasma

Some model system of equations is examined that comprises two sixth order equations of Sobolev type with the second order time derivative. This system describes explosive instability in plasma accounting for the strong space-time dispersion and nonlinear dependence of polarizability on the electric field strength. The case of the so-called focusing medium is also considered.     

Linear analysis and energy budget of viscous liquid jets in both axial and radial electric fields

In their countless industrial applications, axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric instabilities are respectively responsible for electrospraying and electrospinning. A linear method and energy budget have been applied in this study to investigate the instability of viscous jets under both the axial and radial electric fields; the liquid was taken to be a leaky dielectric and the gas a perfect dielectric; the effect of a parabolic velocity profile was considered and compared to that of a uniform velocity, and the energy analysis explained the physical mechanisms to an extent. The liquid viscosity and parabolic velocity profile had a combined effect on jet instability. Work induced by the parabolic velocity profile consisted of two parts: the energy transferred from the basic flow to the disturbances, and the influence of the corresponding shear stresses. At low viscosities, these influences were positive enough to prevail over the viscous dissipation, enhancing axisymmetric instability. However, the parabolic velocity profile functioned differently in small and large wavenumber regions, and the response to the axial electric fields varied in different regions, accounting for the dual effects of axial electric fields on axisymmetric instability. Also, under the interplay between the strong axial electric fields and the parabolic velocity profile, two distinct unstable regions emerged for the non-axisymmetric mode. The effects of the radial electric fields were less sensitive, whether or not the parabolic velocity profile was considered. In summary, the parabolic velocity profile was significant–especially for charged jets with weak viscosity and strong axial electric intensity. The effects of axial electric fields in the atomization zone, and the effects of fluid permittivity coupled with the axial electric fields, were also investigated here.     

Nonlinear electrohydrodynamic instability of a finitely conducting cylinder: Effect of interfacial surface charges

The nonlinear electrohydrodynamic stability of cylindrical interface, supporting surface charge, among two conducting fluids is investigated. The two fluids are subjected to a radial electric field. The analysis based on the multiple scale technique. It is shown that the evolution of the amplitude is governed by two partial differential equations. These equations are combined to yield two alternate Schrödinger equations with cubic nonlinearity. One of which calculates the nonlinear cutoff electric field, separating stable and unstable disturbances, while the other is used to analyze the stability of the system. The stability criteria are analytically discussed and numerically confirmed. Numerical calculations resulted in set of graphs to indicate the stability picture of the considered system.     

Nonlinear electrohydrodynamic instability of a finitely conducting cylinder: Effect of interfacial surface charges

The nonlinear electrohydrodynamic stability of cylindrical interface, supporting surface charge, among two conducting fluids is investigated. The two fluids are subjected to a radial electric field. The analysis based on the multiple scale technique. It is shown that the evolution of the amplitude is governed by two partial differential equations. These equations are combined to yield two alternate Schrödinger equations with cubic nonlinearity. One of which calculates the nonlinear cutoff electric field, separating stable and unstable disturbances, while the other is used to analyze the stability of the system. The stability criteria are analytically discussed and numerically confirmed. Numerical calculations resulted in set of graphs to indicate the stability picture of the considered system.     

Electrohydrodynamic instability of two superposed viscous miscible streaming fluids

The linear stability of two dielectric viscous fluids separated by a horizontal interface is investigated. The interface admits heat and mass transfer. The system is stressed by a normal periodic electric field producing surface charges at the interface. The effect of surface tension, small viscosity, velocity streaming and gravity on the critical surface charges density and on corresponding electric field are analyzed. The contribution of viscosity with the existence of surface charges and streaming are discussed. The investigation includes the stability analysis of the presence of the periodic electric field as well as the constant one. It is found that the presence of the surface charges made by the normal electric field play a dual role in the stability criterion, which shows some analogy with the nonlinear theory of stability. Some previous studies are compared using appropriate data. The marginal state of stability is also considered. It is found that the surface charges vanish under certain conditions. This study shows that the mass and heat transfer parameter has a destabilizing effect whether the electric field is static or periodic. Parametric excitation of the electrohydrodynamic (EHD) surface waves is analyzed in the case of Rayleigh–Taylor (R–T) instability. The transition curves are obtained by means of Whittaker's technique. The analytical results are numerically confirmed.     

Viscous potential flow analysis of magnetohydrodynamic interfacial stability through porous media

In the view of viscous potential flow theory, the hydromagnetic stability of the interface between two infinitely conducting, incompressible plasmas, streaming parallel to the interface and subjected to a constant magnetic field parallel to the streaming direction will be considered. The plasmas are flowing through porous media between two rigid planes and surface tension is taken into account. A general dispersion relation is obtained analytically and solved numerically. For Kelvin-Helmholtz instability problem, the stability criterion is given by a critical value of the relative velocity. On the other hand, a comparison between inviscid and viscous potential flow solutions has been made and it has noticed that viscosity plays a dual role, destabilizing for Rayleigh-Taylor problem and stabilizing for Kelvin-Helmholtz. For Rayleigh-Taylor instability, a new dispersion relation has been obtained in terms of a critical wave number. It has been found that magnetic field, surface tension, and rigid planes have stabilizing effects, whereas critical wave number and porous media have destabilizing effects.     

A stability estimate for a solution to an inverse problem of electrodynamics

We consider the integrodifferential system of equations of electrodynamics which corresponds to a dispersive nonmagnetic medium. For this system we study the problem of determining the spatial part of the kernel of the integral term. This corresponds to finding the part of dielectric permittivity depending nonlinearly on the frequency of the electromagnetic wave. We assume that the support of dielectric permittivity lies in some compact domain Ω ⊂ ℝ³. In order to find it inside Ω we start with known data about the solution to the corresponding direct problem for the equations of electrodynamics on the whole boundary of Ω for some finite time interval. On assuming that the time interval is sufficiently large we estimate the conditional stability of the solution to this inverse problem.     

Stability characteristics of periodic streaming fluids in porous media

We study the linear stability of a three-layer flow of immiscible liquids located in a periodic normal electric field. We consider certain porous media assumed to be uniform, homogeneous, and isotropic. We analytically and numerically simulate the system of linear evolution equations of such a medium. The linearized problem leads to a system of two Mathieu equations with complex coefficients of the damping terms. We study the effects of the streaming velocity, permeability of the porous medium, and the electrical properties of the flow of a thin layer (film) of liquid on the flow instability. We consider several special cases of such systems. As a special case, we consider a uniform electric field and solve the transition curve equations up to the second order in a small dimensionless parameter. We show that the dielectric constant ratio and also the electric field play a destabilizing role in the stability criteria, while the porosity has a dual effect on the wave motion. In the case of an alternating electric field and a periodic velocity, we use the method of multiple time scales to calculate approximate solutions and analyze the stability criteria in the nonresonance and resonance cases; we also obtain transition curves in these cases. We show that an increase in the velocity and the electric field promote oscillations and hence have a destabilizing effect.     

Hydromagnetic linear instability analysis of Giesekus fluids in plane Poiseuille flow

The effects of a fluid’s elasticity are investigated on the instability of plane Poiseuille flow on the presence of a transverse magnetic field. To determine the critical Reynolds number as a function of the Weissenberg number, a two-dimensional linear temporal stability analysis will be used assuming that the viscoelastic fluid obeys Giesekus model as its constitutive equation. Neglecting terms nonlinear in the perturbation quantities, an eigenvalue problem is obtained which is solved numerically by using the Chebyshev collocation method. Based on the results obtained in this work, fluid’s elasticity is predicted to have a stabilizing or destabilizing effect depending on the Weissenberg number being smaller or larger than one. Similarly, solvent viscosity and also the mobility factor are both found to have a stabilizing or destabilizing effect depending on their magnitude being smaller or larger than a critical value. In contrast, the effect of the magnetic field is predicted to be always stabilizing.     

On the formation of gap solitons in nonlinear electromagnetic metamaterials

A nonlinear (Kerr‐type) electromagnetic metamaterial, characterized by a double‐Lorentz model of its frequency‐dependent linear effective dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability, is considered. The formation of gap solitons in the low‐ and high‐frequency band gaps of this metamaterial is investigated analytically. Evolution equations governing the gap solitons, of the form of a nonlinear Klein‐Gordon and a nonlinear Schrödinger equation, are obtained, and the structure of their solutions is discussed.     

A numerical study of electromagnetic waves in periodic waveguides

Here are considered time‐harmonic electromagnetic waves in a quadratic waveguide consisting of a periodic dielectric core enclosed by conducting walls. The permittivity function may be smooth or have jumps. The electromagnetic field is given by a magnetic vector potential in Lorenz gauge, and defined on a Floquet cell. The Helmholtz operator is approximated by a Chebyshev collocation, Fourier–Galerkin method. Laurent's rule and the inverse rule are employed for the representation of Fourier coefficients of products of functions. The computations yield, for known wavenumbers, values of the first few eigenfrequencies of the field. In general, the dispersion curves exhibit band gaps. Field patterns are identified as transverse electric, TE, transverse magnetic, TM, or hybrid modes. Maxwell's equations are fulfilled. A few trivial solutions appear when the permittivity varies in the guiding direction and across it. The results of the present method are consistent with exact results and with those obtained by a low‐order finite element software. The present method is more efficient than the low‐order finite element method. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 30: 490–513, 2014     

Nonlinear analysis of capillary instability with heat and mass transfer

The nonlinear capillary instability of the cylindrical interface between the vapor and liquid phases of a fluid is studied when there is heat and mass transfer across the interface, using viscous potential flow theory. The fluids are considered to be viscous and incompressible with different kinematic viscosities. Both asymmetric and axisymmetric disturbances are considered. The analysis is based on the method of multiple scale perturbation and the nonlinear stability is governed by first-order nonlinear partial differential equation. The stability conditions are obtained and discussed theoretically as well as numerically. Regions of stability and instability have been shown graphically indicating the effect of various parameters. It has been observed that the heat and mass transfer has stabilizing effect on the stability of the system in the nonlinear analysis for both axisymmetric as well as asymmetric disturbances.     

The Influence of Modulational Instability on Energy Exchange in Coupled Sine-Gordon Equations

We consider a two-component system of coupled sine-Gordon equations, particular solutions of which represent a continuum generalization of periodic energy exchange in a system of coupled pendulums. Weakly nonlinear solutions describing periodic energy exchange between waves traveling in the two components are governed, depending on the length scale of the amplitude variation, either by two nonlocally coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations, with different transport terms due to the group velocity, or by a model that is nondispersive to the leading order. Using both asymptotic analysis and numerical simulations, we show that the effects of dispersion significantly influence the structure of these solutions, causing modulational instability and the formation of localized structures but preserving the pattern of energy exchange between the components.     

Linear wave dispersion relation of a magnetized relativistic rectilinear electron beam-dielectric system

A general dispersion relation is derived for a relativistic rectilinear electron beam of arbitrary momentum distributions interacting with a dielectric in a guide magnetic field, on the basis of Maxwell equations and the relativistic Vlasov equation. The instability occurs when the beam velocity exceeds the wave phase velocity in the medium. The linear wave dispersion relation, growth rate, spatial growth rate are studied analytically for delta and Lorentzian distributions of beam momentums in detail. The results are of importance for a new kind of high-power microwave generation or amplification devices based on anomalous Doppler effect.     

An enhanced finite difference time domain method for two dimensional Maxwell's equations

An enhanced finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is built to solve the transverse electric two-dimensional Maxwell's equations with inhomogeneous dielectric media where the electric fields are discontinuous across the dielectric interface. The new algorithm is derived based upon the integral version of the Maxwell's equations as well as the relationship between the electric fields across the interface. To resolve the instability issue of Yee's scheme (staircasing) caused by discontinuous permittivity across the interface, our algorithm revises the permittivities and makes some corrections to the scheme for the cells around the interface. It is also an improvement over the contour-path effective permittivity algorithm by including some extra terms in the formulas. The scheme is validated in solving the scattering of a dielectric cylinder with exact solution from Mie theory and is then compared with the above contour-path method, the usual staircasing and the volume-average method. The numerical results demonstrate that the new algorithm has achieved significant improvement in accuracy over other methods. Furthermore, the algorithm has a simple structure and can be merged into current FDTD software packages easily. The C++ source code for this paper is provided as supporting information for public access.     

Nonlinear stability and instability of relativistic Vlasov‐Maxwell systems

We prove the nonlinear stability or instability of certain periodic equilibria of the 1½D relativistic Vlasov‐Maxwell system. In particular, for a purely magnetic equilibrium with vanishing electric field, we prove its nonlinear stability under a sharp criterion by extending the usual Casimir‐energy method in several new ways. For a general electromagnetic equilibrium we prove that nonlinear instability follows from linear instability. The nonlinear instability is macroscopic, involving only the L¹‐norms of the electromagnetic fields. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Propagation of TM waves in a layer with arbitrary nonlinearity

A boundary value problem for Maxwell’s equations describing propagation of TM waves in a nonlinear dielectric layer with arbitrary nonlinearity is considered. The layer is located between two linear semi-infinite media. The problem is reduced to a nonlinear boundary eigenvalue problem for a system of second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations. A dispersion equation for the eigenvalues of the problem (propagation constants) is derived. For a given nonlinearity function, the dispersion equation can be studied both analytically and numerically. A sufficient condition for the existence of at least one eigenvalue is formulated.