TY - JOUR
T1 - Analytical solution for spheroidal drop under axisymmetric linearized boundary conditions
AU - Zabarankin, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - A liquid spheroidal drop freely suspended in another fluid is considered under arbitrary axisymmetric boundary conditions, which are linearized with respect to the velocity field and can result, in particular, from an axisymmetric external flow and an electric field being applied either separately or in combination. All nonlinear effects including inertia and surface charge convection are assumed to be negligible, whereas the drop and the ambient fluid are assumed to be leaky dielectrics and to have different viscosities. Central to the analysis are the reformulated stress boundary conditions and representation of the velocity field inside and outside the drop in terms of non-Stokes stream functions. In the prolate spheroidal coordinates, the stream functions are expanded into infinite series of spheroidal harmonics, and the reformulated velocity and stress boundary conditions yield a first-order difference equation for the series coefficients, which admits an exact nonrecursive solution. "Steady" spheroidal drops then correspond to minimums of a kinematic condition error that admits a simple efficient approximation. Under the simultaneous presence of aligned linear flow and a uniform electric field with corresponding capillary numbers Ca and CaE, a spherical drop is stationary when Ca = k CaE and becomes prolate/oblate when Ca ∨ k CaE, where k is proportional to the Taylor discriminating function and depends on ratios of viscosities, dielectric constants, and electric conductivities of the two phases. A spheroidal drop is "steady" when Ca = k1 CaE + k2, where k1 and k2 depend on the spheroid's axes ratio d and approach k and 0, respectively, as d → 1. The results show that when the Taylor deformation parameter D is in the range [-0.5, 0.4], this relationship can be used for finding any of the three Ca, CaE, and D when the other two are given.
AB - A liquid spheroidal drop freely suspended in another fluid is considered under arbitrary axisymmetric boundary conditions, which are linearized with respect to the velocity field and can result, in particular, from an axisymmetric external flow and an electric field being applied either separately or in combination. All nonlinear effects including inertia and surface charge convection are assumed to be negligible, whereas the drop and the ambient fluid are assumed to be leaky dielectrics and to have different viscosities. Central to the analysis are the reformulated stress boundary conditions and representation of the velocity field inside and outside the drop in terms of non-Stokes stream functions. In the prolate spheroidal coordinates, the stream functions are expanded into infinite series of spheroidal harmonics, and the reformulated velocity and stress boundary conditions yield a first-order difference equation for the series coefficients, which admits an exact nonrecursive solution. "Steady" spheroidal drops then correspond to minimums of a kinematic condition error that admits a simple efficient approximation. Under the simultaneous presence of aligned linear flow and a uniform electric field with corresponding capillary numbers Ca and CaE, a spherical drop is stationary when Ca = k CaE and becomes prolate/oblate when Ca ∨ k CaE, where k is proportional to the Taylor discriminating function and depends on ratios of viscosities, dielectric constants, and electric conductivities of the two phases. A spheroidal drop is "steady" when Ca = k1 CaE + k2, where k1 and k2 depend on the spheroid's axes ratio d and approach k and 0, respectively, as d → 1. The results show that when the Taylor deformation parameter D is in the range [-0.5, 0.4], this relationship can be used for finding any of the three Ca, CaE, and D when the other two are given.
KW - Electric field
KW - Exact solution
KW - Linear flow
KW - Non-Stokes stream function
KW - Spheroidal drop
KW - Stokes flow
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U2 - 10.1137/15M1048471
DO - 10.1137/15M1048471
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84984985806
SN - 0036-1399
VL - 76
SP - 1606
EP - 1632
JO - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
JF - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
IS - 4
ER -