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Plane Stokes flow driven by capillarity on a free surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Robert W. Hopper
Robert W. Hopper
Affiliation:
Chemistry and Materials Science Department, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
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Abstract

The free creeping viscous incompressible plane flow of a finite region, bounded by a simple smooth closed curve and driven solely by surface tension, is analysed. The shape evolution is described in terms of a time-dependent mapping function z = Ω (ζ, t) of the unit circle, conformal on |ζ| [les ] 1. An equation giving the time evolution of the Ω (ζ, t) is derived. In practice, it has been necessary to guess a parametric form, i.e. Ω (ζ, t) = Ω[ζ; a1(t), a2(t), …], whose validity must be verified using the shape-evolution equation. Polynomial and proper rational mappings with no repeated factors are apparently always valid in principle. Solutions are given for (i) regions bounded initially by a regular epitrochoid, (ii) the limiting case of a half-plane bounded by a trochoid, and (iii) a class of rosettes whose mapping is rational. The two-lobed rosette gives the exact solution of the coalescence of equal cylinders. All these mappings involve limiting initial shapes having inward-pointing cusps. Useful parameterizations providing regions whose limiting shapes possess corners or outward-pointing cusps have not been found.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 213 , April 1990 , pp. 349 - 375
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© 1990 Cambridge University Press

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