Stability analysis of interfacial circulation on a static liquid drop with forced internal circulation
Abstract
A hemispherical constant volume drop with forced internal circulation was considered as a model approximating a real drop at a similar stage of formation. It was proposed that the ordered flow patterns of interfacial circulation observed experimentally on the surface of such a drop are a manifestation of hydrodynamic instability, which was affected by internal flow conditions within the drop and by the properties of the interface. A simplified mathematical model was analyzed in order to detail the mechanism for the onset of interfacial circulation from a non-circulatory basic state.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- February 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979PhDT........25J
- Keywords:
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- Drops (Liquids);
- Flow Distribution;
- Interface Stability;
- Euler-Lagrange Equation;
- Flow Stability;
- Interfacial Tension;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Reynolds Number;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer