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Viscous effects on Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in a channel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2011

H. KIM ,
J. C. PADRINO  and
D. D. JOSEPH
H. KIM*
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J. C. PADRINO
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
D. D. JOSEPH
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

The effects of viscosity on Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in a channel are studied using three different theories; a purely irrotational theory based on the dissipation method, an exact rotational theory and a hybrid irrotational–rotational theory. These new results are compared with previous results from a viscous irrotational theory. An analysis of the neutral state is conducted and its predictions are compared with experimental results related to the transition from a stratified-smooth to a stratified-wavy or slug flow. For values of the gas fraction greater than about 0.20, there is an interval of velocity differences for which the flow is unstable for an interval of wavenumbers between two cutoff wavenumbers, k− and k+. For unstable flows with a velocity difference above that interval or with gas fractions less than 0.20, k− = 0. The maximum critical relative velocity that determines the onset of instability can be found when the kinematic viscosity of the gas and liquid are the same. This critical value is surprisingly achieved when both fluids are inviscid. The neutral curves from the analyses of potential flow of viscous fluids and the hybrid method, the only theories that account for the viscosity of both fluids in this work, indicate that the critical velocity does not change with the viscosity ratio when the kinematic viscosity of the liquid is greater than a critical value. For smaller liquid viscosities, the critical relative velocity decreases.

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Instability: Instability Interfacial Flows (free surface): Interfacial Flows (free surface)
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 680 , 10 August 2011 , pp. 398 - 416
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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Footnotes

This paper is dedicated to the memory of Daniel D. Joseph (1929–2011)

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