Author:
Bark Fritz H.,Tinoco Hernán
Abstract
The linear hydrodynamic stability problem for plane Poiseuille flow of a dilute suspension of rigid fibres is solved numerically. The constitutive equation given by Batchelor (1970a, b, 1971) is used to model the rheological properties of the suspension. The resulting eigenvalue problem is shown to be singular. The appropriate contour in the complex plane is determined by considering an initial-value problem. It is shown that, for a fixed, but not too large, inclination of the wave front to the mean flow, the fibres cause the critical Reynolds number to increase monotonically with the product of the volume fraction of the fibres and the square of their aspect ratio. The stabilizing influence of the fibres seems to vanish for large wave inclination angles.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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