Chaotic advections for Stokes flows in circular cavity
Journal
Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Journal Volume
123
Journal Issue
8
Pages
774-782
Date Issued
1997
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Abstract
Steady Stokes flows in a circular cavity is analytically solved by using Green's function. The familiar phenomenon of Lagrangian chaos for Stokes flows in a long, circular cylinder filled with a viscous fluid subject to various boundary conditions is studied numerically. To achieve chaotic mixing for the fluid particles, two mobile outer walls in close contact with a fixed inner wall that have two corresponding openings are made to (independently) oscillate periodically in time. The expansion rate for a thin fluid filament is also determined when the oscillatory modulation is turned on. Our study shows that counterrotating boundaries have a greater tendency to create mixing than corotating ones.
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journal article