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Rimming flow: numerical simulation of steady, viscous, free-surface flow with surface tension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

F. M. Orr  and
L. E. Scriven
F. M. Orr
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Present address: Shell Development Company, P.O. Box 481, Houston, Texas 77001.
L. E. Scriven
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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Abstract

Flow in a partly liquid-filled, rotating, horizontal cylinder is analysed by means of finite-element numerical simulation. Of alternative methods for locating the free surface, a boundary collocation scheme with Newton-Raphson iteration converges. This method forces the residual in the normal-stress boundary condition to zero at a finite set of points on the liquid meniscus. Solutions of the steady, two-dimensional, incompressible flow problem show circumferential variation of the liquid-film thickness and corresponding pressure and velocity fields, including recirculation zones. The complications of an unknown meniscus location and a nonlinear normal-stress condition when surface tension is significant are illustrated. The finite-element method proves an effective and convenient tool for such flows, in which inertial, gravitational, pressure, viscous and capillary forces are all important.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , 16 January 1978 , pp. 145 - 165
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© 1978 Cambridge University Press

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