An extended Boussinesq theory for interfacial fluid mechanics

Bibliographic Details
Title: An extended Boussinesq theory for interfacial fluid mechanics
Authors: Lawrence K. Forbes, Ross J. Turner, Stephen J. Walters
Source: Journal of Engineering Mathematics. 133
Publisher Information: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022.
Publication Year: 2022
Subject Terms: Incompressible viscous fluids, smoothed-particle hydrodynamics method, Stratification effects in viscous fluids, 0103 physical sciences, Particle methods and lattice-gas methods, Liquid-liquid two component flows, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, Navier-Stokes equations, 01 natural sciences, Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability, fluid interface
Description: Boussinesq theory can model quite accurately viscous flows that involve multiple fluids with interfaces between them, so long as there is not much difference between the densities of the various fluids. However, the Boussinesq approximation is generally poor when the density ratio between the fluids is large. Here, we propose an Extended Boussinesq approximate equation, that allows for large density ratios, while still remaining straightforward to implement. Examples are given for planar Rayleigh–Taylor instability, where the Boussinesq and the novel Extended Boussinesq models are compared with the predictions of an SPH fluid dynamics code, to confirm this approach.
Document Type: Article
File Description: application/xml
Language: English
ISSN: 1573-2703
0022-0833
DOI: 10.1007/s10665-022-10215-w
Access URL: https://zbmath.org/7507207
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-022-10215-w
Rights: CC BY
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....a6f5a0a9cf5b3e405943d11892bbff7c
Database: OpenAIRE
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ISSN:15732703
00220833
DOI:10.1007/s10665-022-10215-w