Fluid Dynamics at Interfaces

In this book experts discuss research and applications in interfacial fluid dynamics.

Wei Shyy (Edited by), Ranga Narayanan (Edited by)

9780521642668, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 September 1999

478 pages
26.1 x 18.4 x 2.7 cm, 0.97 kg

Many of the significant issues in fluid dynamics occur at interfaces, that is, at the boundaries between differing fluids or between fluids and solids. These issues are important in areas ranging from aircraft flight, to the flow of blood in the heart, to chemical vapour deposition. The subject is an area of active research and development, owing to improved analytical, experimental, and computational techniques. This book describes research and applications in interfacial fluid dynamics and stability. It is organized around five topics: Benard and thermocapillary instabilities, shear and pressure induced instabilities, waves and dispersions, multiphase systems, and complex flows. Chapters have been contributed by internationally recognized experts, both theoreticians and experimentalists. Because of the range and importance of topics discussed, this book will interest a broad audience of graduate students and researchers in mechanical, aerospace, materials, and chemical engineering, as well as in applied mathematics and physics.

List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Benard and Thermo-Capillary Instabilities: 1. Nonlinear dynamics and stability of thin evaporating liquid films subject to internal heat generation
2. Pattern formation in liquid-air convection - influence of air height in bilayer coupling
3. The third type of Benard convection induced by evaporation
4. Waves generated by surface tension gradients and instability
5. Thermocapillary-Coriolis instabilities
Part II. Shear and Pressure Driven Instabilities: 6. Control of instability in a liquid film flow
7. Three-dimensional waves in thin liquid films
8. Modulation wave dynamics of kinematic interfacial waves
9. Multi-layer film flows down an inclined plane: simulations based on the lubrication approximation, and normal-mode decomposition of linear waves
10. Spatial evolution of interfacial waves in gas-liquid flows
11. The shear breakup of an immiscible fluid interface
12. Two-fluid-layer flow stability
Part III. Waves and Dispersion: 13. On modeling unsteady fully nonlinear dispersive interfacial waves
14. Instabilities in the coupled equatorial ocean-atmosphere system
15. Large amplitude solitary wave on a pyenocluine and its instability
16. Stability and pattern selection in parametrically driven surface waves
17. Deformation and rupture in confined, thin liquid films driven by thermocapillarity
18. Linear and nonlinear waves in flowing water
19. Pinned-edge Faraday waves
20. Interfacial shapes in the steady flow of a highly viscous dispersed phase
Part IV. Multiphase Systems: 21. Interaction between fluid flow and flexible structures
22. Numerical treatment of moving interfaces in phase-change processes
23. Convergence and accuracy of Kernel-based continuum surface tension models
24. Interaction of convection and solidification at fluid-solid interfaces
25. Interfacial motion of a molten layer subject to plasma heating
26. The fluid mechanics of premelted liquid films
27. Recent advances in Lattice Boltzmann methods
28. Bubble dynamics in heterogeneous boiling heat transfer
Part V. Complex Flows: 29. Heat, mass and momentum exchanges between outer flow and separation bubble behind a single backward-facing step with gas injection from one duct wall
30. A moving boundary problem arising from stratigraphic modeling
31. Convection generated by lateral heating of a solute gradient: review and extension
32. Heat conduction from a solid particle and the force on it in Stokes flow in a fluid with position dependent physical properties
33. Radiation affected ignition phenomena with solid-gas interaction
34. Bio-magnetic fluid dynamics
35. The man I know: Chia-Shun Yih, July 25, 1988–April 25, 1997
Index.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF]