Einfluß nichtnewtonscher Stoffeigenschaften auf die Taylor-Wirbelströmung

Zusammenfassung Nach einer kurzen Beschreibung über die Anwendung der Taylor-Wirbelströmung bei der Filtration von nichtnewtonschen Flüssigkeiten werden polymere Modellflüssigkeiten charakterisiert, die als Partikel- und Netzwerklösungen in einer Wirbelströmungsapparatur eingesetzt wurden. Die Fließkurven der Polymerlösungen zeigen aufgrund der extrem hochmolekularen Polymerproben neben strukturviskosen Erscheinungen auch dilatantes Fließverhalten mit besonderer Wirkung auf die Taylor-Wirbelströmung.Die Versuchsflüssigkeiten offenbaren vier verschiedene Typen von Strömungsinstabilitäten: spiralförmige, schwingende und stationäre Instabilitäten sowie gedämpfte Turbulenz. Während die stark strukturviskosen Netzwerklösungen alle genannten Formen aufweisen, fehlt bei den Partikellösungen die spiralförmige Instabilität.Unter Zuhilfenahme des Hantelmolekülmodells zur Beschreibung viskoelastischer Strömungsphänomene gelingt es, durch Einführung einer kritischen Deborahzahl den Einsatzpunkt nichtnewtonscher Taylorströmungseffekte vorauszusagen. Die gefundene Beziehung steht in engem Zusammenhang mit dehnviskositätserhöhenden Polymerwirkungen in Porenströmungen und mit reibungsmindernden Polymereffekten in turbulenten Rohrströmungen.

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Experimental investigations dealing with dilute polymer solutions are described after a short review of the application of Taylor-vortex flow in the filtration processes of non-Newtonian fluids. The test fluids represent both viscoelastic solutions with isolated macromolecules and network solutions with power law fluid behaviour.These solutions show four different types of flow instabilities: spiral-shaped, oscillatory, steady and turbulent phenomena. The Taylor-numbers which depend upon the polymer concentration are determined for the onset of these instability types. For isolated macromolecule solutions, the Deborah-number concept for dilute dumbbell solutions can be applied to describe the first appearance of irregular nonstationary Taylor vortices.The present data are compared to literature values. This fluid behaviour is related to extensional viscosity increases which are also observed in porous media flow and turbulent pipe flow of dilute macromolecular solutions.

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Nomenklatur A, B Konstanten aus Randbedingungen der Ringspaltströmung - C Polymerkonzentration - D Schergeschwindigkeit - De Deborahzahl - l Länge einer Wirbelzelle - L Zylinderlänge - m Gesamtanzahl der Wirbelpaare zur Bestimmung der Wellenzahl - M Molmasse der Polymere - M _w Gewichtsmittel der Molmasse - M _v Viskositätsmittel der Molmasse - n Drehzahl des Rotors - universelle Gaskonstante - r Radius - R _a Radius des Außenzylinders - R _i Radius des Innenzylinders - s Spaltweite - s ^* dimensionslose Spaltweite - T Temperatur - Ta Taylorzahl - v Umfangsgeschwindigkeit - z Anzahl der Wirbelpaare zur Bestimmung der Wellenzahl Griechische Symbole Deformationskoeffizient von Makromolekülen - Wellenzahl - Dehnrate - dynamische Viskosität - [] Grenzviskositätszahl - Relaxationszeit - Dichte - Schubspannung - Winkelgeschwindigkeit - _a Winkelgeschwindigkeit des Außenzylinders - _i Winkelgeschwindigkeit des Innenzylinders Indices c kritisch (erstmaliges Auftreten von Taylorwirbel) - N newtonsch - o onset, Schwellwert - P polymer - r radial - Sch schwingend - Spir spiralförmig - Stat stationär - Turb turbulent - T Taylorströmung - Umfangsrichtung Herrn Prof. Dr. Heinz Harnisch zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet     

A nonlinear PSE method for two-fluid shear flows with complex interfacial topology

A nonlinear stability method is developed for laminar two-fluid shear flows which undergo changes in the interface topology. The method is based on the nonlinear parabolized stability equations (PSE) and incorporates a scalar-based interface capturing (IC) scheme in order to track complex deformations of the fluid interface. In doing so, the formulation retains the flexibility and physical insight of instability-wave based methods, while providing hydrodynamic modeling capabilities similar to direct numerical calculations: the new formulation, referred to as the IC-PSE, can capture the nonlinear physical mechanisms responsible for generating large-scale, two-fluid structures, without incurring heavy computational costs. This approach is valid for spatially developing, laminar two-fluid shear flows which are convectively unstable, and can naturally account for the growth of finite amplitude interfacial waves, along with changes to the interfacial topology. We demonstrate the accuracy of the IC-PSE against direct Navier–Stokes calculations for two-fluid mixing layers with density and viscosity stratification. The comparisons show that the IC-PSE can predict the dynamics of the instability waves and capture the formation of Kelvin–Helmholtz vortex rolls and large scale liquid structures, at an order of magnitude less computational cost than direct calculations. The role of surface tension in the IC-PSE formulation is shown to be valid for flows in which Re/We ? 1, and the method accurately predicts the formation and non-linear evolution of flow structures in this limit. This is demonstrated for spatially developing mixing layers which lead to vortex roll-up and ligaments, prior to droplet formation. The pinch-off process itself is a high surface tension phenomenon and in not considered herein. The method also accurately captures the effect of interfacial waves on the mean flow, and the topology changes during the non-linear evolution of the two-fluid structures.     

Spontaneous 2D modulation instability in second harmonic generation process

Two-dimensional modulation instability (2DMI) is experimentally demonstrated in a classical second harmonic generation setup. The spatial spectrum is measured and reveals typical 2DMI bands, in agreement with the analytical MI model. These observations are confirmed by (2 + 1)D numerical simulations.     

非链式化学HF（DF）激光器工作气体中电子分离的非稳定性和气体放电等离子体的自组织现象

报道了放电引发的非链式HF（DF）激光器中的激活介质由电子碰撞负离子分离引起的电离非稳定性。这种非稳性出现在电极空间分离、脉冲CO2激光加热的基于sF6的混合气体的大体积放电中。实验研究了自引发体放电过程中由激光加热引起的放电等离子体的自组织现象以及由此在放电间隙的大部分区域形成的准周期等离子体结构。重点分析了等离子体结构随气体温度和注入能量的变化,讨论了等离子体自组织对电子碰撞分离不稳定性所产生的影响,解释了混合气体中由于电子碰撞使负离子消失导致的单等离子体通道移动的产生机理。     

Particle-laden viscous thin-film flows on an incline: Experiments compared with a theory based on shear-induced migration and particle settling

Particle settling in driven viscous films is a complex physical process involving different physical effects. A recent analysis by Cook (2008) [10] has identified a balance between hindered settling and shear-induced migration as the dominant large scale physics for particle/liquid separation. However, experimental data for this has been lacking. This paper presents new data including the role of particle size and liquid viscosity showing clear agreement with the theory. We discuss the role of timescales in the dynamics of the experiment and present results from a dynamic model.     

微小圆管中分裂火焰的实验与理论研究

对丙烷/空气在内径2 mm的圆管内的预混燃烧进行了实验研究,借助于高速数码摄像机发现了分裂火焰现象,其中一个为向上游传播的较亮的常规火焰,另一个为向下游传播的较暗的微弱火焰。这些火焰先后熄灭,经过一段时间后又重复发生自着火、分裂、反向传播、灭火过程。这种现象在富燃、化学恰当比以及贫燃火焰中都有存在。一维非稳态计算表明化...     

Condition for convective instability of dark solitons

Simple derivation of the condition for the transition point from absolute instability of plane dark solitons to their convective instability is suggested. It is shown that unstable wave packet expands with velocity equal to the minimal group velocity of the disturbance waves propagating along a dark soliton. The growth rate of the length of dark solitons generated by the flow of Bose-Einstein condensate past an obstacle is estimated. Analytical theory is confirmed by the results of numerical simulations.     

Akhmediev breather evolution in optical fiber for realistic initial conditions

We study numerically Akhmediev breather dynamics in optical fibers under initial conditions that do not correspond to an ideal infinitesimal modulation on a plane wave. We examine two modifications that are commonly encountered in realistic experiments: (i) a finite-amplitude (not necessarily weak) initial modulation; (ii) the use of pulsed excitation. In the first case, we derive an expression for the propagation distance required to generate a train of compressed breather pulses. In the second case, we show that breather dynamics with pulsed excitation can be interpreted in terms of local breather states at different points on the pulse envelope.     

Spike patterns in a reaction–diffusion ODE model with Turing instability

We explore a mechanism of pattern formation arising in processes described by a system of a single reaction–diffusion equation coupled with ordinary differential equations. Such systems of equations arise from the modeling of interactions between cellular processes and diffusing growth factors. We focus on the model of early carcinogenesis proposed by Marciniak‐Czochra and Kimmel, which is an example of a wider class of pattern formation models with an autocatalytic non‐diffusing component. We present a numerical study showing emergence of periodic and irregular spike patterns because of diffusion‐driven instability. To control the accuracy of simulations, we develop a numerical code on the basis of the finite‐element method and adaptive mesh grid. Simulations, supplemented by numerical analysis, indicate a novel pattern formation phenomenon on the basis of the emergence of nonstationary structures tending asymptotically to a sum of Dirac deltas. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability for Two Uniform Viscous Incompressible Flows

The authors study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for two incompressible immis- cible fluids with or without surface tension, evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field in Eulerian coordinates. To deal with the free surface, instead of using the transformation to Lagrangian coordinates, the perturbed equations in Eule- rian coordinates are transformed to an integral form and the two-fluid flow is formulated as a single-fluid flow in a fixed domain, thus offering an alternative approach to deal with the jump conditions at the free interface. First, the linearized problem around the steady state which describes a denser immiscible fluid lying above a light one with a free interface separating the two fluids, both fluids being in （unstable） equilibrium is analyzed. By a general method of studying a family of modes, the smooth （when restricted to each fluid domain） solutions to the linearized problem that grow exponentially fast in time in Sobolev spaces are constructed, thus leading to a global instability result for the linearized problem. Then, by using these pathological solutions, the global instability for the corresponding nonlinear problem in an appropriate sense is demonstrated.