Gravity–Capillary Free-Surface Flows

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Pub. Date: 2010-08-23
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Summary

Gravity-capillary flows, in which the effects of pipe flow, gravity flow, and surface tension combine to produce a singular flow pattern, are utilised in many practical applications. The effect of surface tension on gravity-capillary flows continues to be a fertile field of research in applied mathematics and engineering. Concentrating on applications arising from fluid dynamics, Professor Vanden-Broeck's volume draws from his own results, collected from years of experience in the subject, and places this knowledge within the context of recent developments. Whilst careful numerical techniques are implemented to solve the basic equations, an emphasis is placed upon the reader developing a deep understanding of the structure of the resulting solutions. Surface flows are treated for cases where there may, or may not, exist intersections between the flow and rigid bodies; other examples include free bubbles rising in a fluid and solitary waves.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xi
Introductionp. 1
Basic conceptsp. 7
The equations of fluid mechanicsp. 7
Free-surface flowsp. 8
Two-dimensional flowsp. 11
Linear wavesp. 15
The water-wave equationsp. 15
Linear solutions for water wavesp. 17
Superposition of linear wavesp. 24
Free-surface flows that intersect wallsp. 31
Free streamline solutionsp. 33
Forced separationp. 33
Free separationp. 43
The effects of surface tensionp. 58
Forced separationp. 58
Free separationp. 66
The effects of gravityp. 73
Solutions with ß1 = 0 (funnels)p. 83
Solutions with ß1 = 0 (nozzles and bubbles)p. 88
Solutions with ß1 = ¿/2 (flow under a gate with gravity)p. 94
The combined effects of gravity and surface tensionp. 98
Rising bubbles in a tubep. 99
Fingering in a Hele Shaw cellp. 103
Further examples involving rising bubblesp. 108
Exponential asymptoticsp. 112
Linear free-surface flows generated by moving disturbancesp. 114
The exact nonlinear equationsp. 115
Linear theoryp. 116
Solutions in water of finite depthp. 116
Solutions in water of infinite depthp. 122
Discussion of the solutionsp. 124
Nonlinear waves - asymptotic solutionsp. 129
Periodic wavesp. 129
Solutions when condition (5.55) is satisfiedp. 135
Solutions when condition (5.55) is not satisfiedp. 138
The Korteweg-de Vries equationp. 142
Numerical computations of nonlinear water wavesp. 148
Formulationp. 148
Series truncation methodp. 151
Boundary integral equation methodp. 152
Numerical methods for solitary wavesp. 156
Boundary integral equation methodsp. 157
Numerical results for periodic wavesp. 160
Pure capillary waves (g = 0, T ≠ 0)p. 160
Pure gravity waves (g ≠ 0, T = 0)p. 164
Gravity-capillary waves (g ≠ 0, T ≠ 0)p. 175
Numerical results for solitary wavesp. 181
Pure gravity solitary wavesp. 181
Gravity-capillary solitary wavesp. 186
Nonlinear free-surface flows generated by moving disturbancesp. 191
Pure gravity free-surface flows in water of finite depthp. 192
Supercritical flowsp. 192
Subcritical flowsp. 195
Gravity-capillary free-surface flowsp. 201
Results in finite depthp. 201
Results in infinite depth (removal of the nonuniformity)p. 203
Gravity-capillary free-surface flows with Wilton ripplesp. 206
Free-surface flows with waves and intersections with rigid wallsp. 210
Free-surface flow past a flat platep. 211
Numerical resultsp. 212
Analytical resultsp. 215
Free-surface flow past a surface-piercing objectp. 218
Numerical resultsp. 219
Analytical resultsp. 221
Flow under a sluice gatep. 226
Formulationp. 228
Numerical procedurep. 231
Discussion of the resultsp. 233
Pure capillary free-surface flowsp. 236
Numerical resultsp. 236
Analytical resultsp. 239
Waves with constant vorticityp. 244
Solitary waves with constant vorticityp. 245
Mathematical formulationp. 245
Numerical procedurep. 248
Discussion of the resultsp. 249
Periodic waves with constant vorticityp. 267
Mathematical formulationp. 268
Numerical procedurep. 270
Numerical resultsp. 271
Discussionp. 276
Three-dimensional free-surface flowsp. 278
Green's function formulation for two-dimensional problemsp. 278
Pressure distributionp. 278
Two-dimensional surface-piercing objectp. 283
Extension to three-dimensional free-surface flowsp. 286
Gravity flows generated by moving disturbances in water of infinite depthp. 286
Three-dimensional gravity-capillary free-surface flows in water of infinite depthp. 293
Further extensionsp. 298
Time-dependent free-surface flowsp. 301
Introductionp. 301
Nonlinear gravity-capillary standing wavesp. 301
Referencesp. 308
Indexp. 318
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