STABILITY OF QUANTUM FLUIDS: WAVY INTERFACE EFFECT

Abstract

A numerical investigation for the stability of the incompressible slip flow of normal quantum fluids (above the critical phase transition temperature) inside a microslab where surface acoustic waves propagate along the walls is presented. Governing equations and associated slip velocity and wavy interface boundary conditions for the flow of normal fluids confined between elastic wavy interfaces are obtained. The numerical approach is an extension (with a complex matrix pre-conditioning) of the spectral method. We found that the critical Reynolds number ( Re cr or the critical velocity) decreases significantly once the slip velocity and wavy interface effects are present and the latter is dominated ( Re cr mainly depends on the wavy interfaces).