Instabilities in viscosity-stratified flow

R Govindarajan, KC Sahu - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
This review highlights the profound and unexpected ways in which viscosity varying in
space and time can affect flow. The most striking manifestations are through alterations of …

Solitonic dispersive hydrodynamics: theory and observation

MD Maiden, DV Anderson, NA Franco, GA El… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Ubiquitous nonlinear waves in dispersive media include localized solitons and extended
hydrodynamic states such as dispersive shock waves. Despite their physical prominence …

Miscible displacement flows in near-horizontal ducts at low Atwood number

SM Taghavi, K Alba, T Séon… - Journal of fluid …, 2012 - cambridge.org
We study buoyant displacement flows with two miscible fluids of equal viscosity in the
regime of low Atwood number and in ducts that are inclined close to horizontal. Using a …

Observation of traveling breathers and their scattering in a two-fluid system

Y Mao, S Chandramouli, W Xu, MA Hoefer - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The observation of traveling breathers (TBs) with large-amplitude oscillatory tails realizes an
almost 50-year-old theoretical prediction [EA Kuznetsov and AV Mikhailov, Stability of …

Viscosity effects in density-stable miscible displacement flows: Experiments and simulations

A Etrati, IA Frigaard - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We study characteristics of miscible displacement flows in inclined pipes with density-stable
configuration, meaning the lighter fluid is pumped to displace the heavier fluid downward …

Pressure-driven miscible two-fluid channel flow with density gradients

KC Sahu, H Ding, P Valluri, OK Matar - Physics of Fluids, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We study the effect of buoyancy on pressure-driven flow of two miscible fluids in inclined
channels via direct numerical simulations. The flow dynamics are governed by the continuity …

Stability of a layered reactive channel flow

SN Maharana, KC Sahu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We analyse the linear stability of a reactive plane Poiseuille flow, where a reactant fluid A
overlies another reactant B in a layered fashion within a two-dimensional channel. Both …

Buoyant miscible displacement flows at moderate viscosity ratios and low Atwood numbers in near-horizontal ducts

SM Taghavi, K Alba, IA Frigaard - Chemical engineering science, 2012 - Elsevier
We present results from a study of buoyant miscible displacements flows at moderate
viscosity ratios in near-horizontal ducts. Low Atwood numbers are considered. Inertial effects …

Absolute and convective instability of a round jet emerging into an ambient medium of different viscosity

J Yang, V Srinivasan - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
We perform linear stability calculations for a jet emerging into an ambient medium of a
different viscosity but the same density. These calculations are intended to isolate the effects …

Linear instability, nonlinear instability and ligament dynamics in three-dimensional laminar two-layer liquid–liquid flows

LO Naraigh, P Valluri, DM Scott, I Bethune… - Journal of fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We consider the linear and nonlinear stability of two-phase density-matched but viscosity-
contrasted fluids subject to laminar Poiseuille flow in a channel, paying particular attention to …