Hydrodynamic equations Stokes

If these assumptions are satisfied then the ideas developed earlier about the mean free path can be used to provide qualitative but useful estimates of the transport properties of a dilute gas. While many varied and complicated processes can take place in fluid systems, such as turbulent flow, pattern fonnation, and so on, the principles on which these flows are analysed are remarkably simple. The description of both simple and complicated flows m fluids is based on five hydrodynamic equations, die Navier-Stokes equations. These equations, in trim, are based upon the mechanical laws of conservation of particles, momentum and energy in a fluid, together with a set of phenomenological equations, such as Fourier s law of themial conduction and Newton s law of fluid friction. When these phenomenological laws are used in combination with the conservation equations, one obtains the Navier-Stokes equations. Our goal here is to derive the phenomenological laws from elementary mean free path considerations, and to obtain estimates of the associated transport coefficients. Flere we will consider themial conduction and viscous flow as examples. 

A proposal based on Onsager s theory was made by Landau and Lifshitz [27] for the fluctuations that should be added to the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic equations. Fluctuating stress tensor and heat flux temis were postulated in analogy with the Onsager theory. Flowever, since this is a case where the variables are of mixed time reversal character, tlie derivation was not fiilly rigorous. This situation was remedied by tlie derivation by Fox and Ulilenbeck [13, H, 18] based on general stationary Gaussian-Markov processes [12]. The precise fomi of the Landau proposal is confimied by this approach [14]. 

We cannot deal here with the details of the hydrodynamic Navier-Stokes equations and their consequences. For dimensional reasons one can derive the following expression [150] for the thickness of the boundary layer when the crystal rotates with angular frequency u>... 

While mathematically attractive, this force law is of limited interest physically it represents only the interaction between permanent quadrupoles, and even this with neglect of angles of orientation. However, although the details of the dependence of viscosity upon temperature are affected by the force law used, the general form of the hydrodynamic equation in the Navier-Stokes approximation is not affected. 

In fluid dynamics the behavior in this system is described by the full set of hydrodynamic equations. This behavior can be characterized by the Reynolds number. Re, which is the ratio of characteristic flow scales to viscosity scales. We recall that the Reynolds number is a measure of the dominating terms in the Navier-Stokes equation and, if the Reynolds number is small, linear terms will dominate if it is large, nonlinear terms will dominate. In this system, the nonlinear term, (u V)u, serves to convert linear momentum into angular momentum. This phenomena is evidenced by the appearance of two counter-rotating vortices or eddies immediately behind the obstacle. Experiments and numerical integration of the Navier-Stokes equations predict the formation of these vortices at the length scale of the obstacle. Further, they predict that the distance between the vortex center and the obstacle is proportional to the Reynolds number. All these have been observed in our 2-dimensional flow system obstructed by a thermal plate at microscopic scales. ... 

Since MPC dynamics yields the hydrodynamic equations on long distance and time scales, it provides a mesoscopic simulation algorithm for investigation of fluid flow that complements other mesoscopic methods. Since it is a particle-based scheme it incorporates fluctuations, which are essential in many applications. For macroscopic fluid flow averaging is required to obtain the deterministic flow fields. In spite of the additional averaging that is required the method has the advantage that it is numerically stable, does not suffer from lattice artifacts in the structure of the Navier-Stokes equations, and boundary conditions are easily implemented. 

For the case of creeping flow, that is flow at very low velocities relative to the sphere, the drag force F on the particle was obtained in 1851 by Stokes(1) who solved the hydrodynamic equations of motion, the Navier-Stokes equations, to give ... 

This result, together with two well-known hydrodynamic equations, the Stokes law for friction... 

The hydrodynamic equation of motion (Navier-Stokes equation) for the stationary axial velocity, vfr), of an incompressible fluid in a cylindrical pore under the influence of a pressure gradient, dP /dz, and an axial electric field, E is... 

The first group, consisting of Sections 2.2-2.4, covers sedimentation. After some preliminaries, we discuss Stokes s law, a hydrodynamic equation that will appear again when we discuss electrokinetic phenomena in Chapter 12 and the kinetics of coagulation in Chapter 13. Stokes s law is a key relationship in understanding the rate of sedimentation and is used in the derivation of the sedimentation equation for spherical particles. Following this, the equation for the sedimentation coefficient, a... 

The basic hydrodynamic equations are the Navier-Stokes equations [51]. These equations are listed in their general form in Appendix C. The combination of these equations, for example, with Darcy s law, the fluid flow in crossflow filtration in tubular or capillary membranes can be described [52]. In most cases of enzyme or microbial membrane reactors where enzymes are immobilized within the membrane matrix or in a thin layer at the matrix/shell interface or the live cells are inoculated into the shell, a cake layer is not formed on the membrane surface. The concentration-polarization layer can exist but this layer does not alter the value of the convective velocity. Several studies have modeled the convective-flow profiles in a hollow-fiber and/or flat-sheet membranes [11, 35, 44, 53-56]. Bruining [44] gives a general description of flows and pressures for enzyme membrane reactor. Three main modes... 

The starting point for the description of these complex phenomena is the set of hydrodynamic equations for the hquid crystal and Maxwell s equation for the propagation of the light. The relevant physical variables that these equations contain are the director field n(r, t), the flow of the liquid v(r, t) and the electric field of the light E/jg/jt(r, t). (We assume an incompressible fluid and neglect temperature differences within the medium.) The Navier-Stokes equation for the velocity v can be written as [5]... 

As a rule, the force of inertia is small in comparison with the viscous force, and therefore the hydrodynamic equations may be reduced to Stokes equations appropriate to hydrodynamics at small Reynolds numbers. 

Pulsatile flow in an elastic vessel is very complex, since the tube is able to undergo local deformations in both longitudinal and circumferential directions. The unsteady component of the pulsatile flow is assumed to be induced by propagation of small waves in a pressurized elastic tube. The mathematical approach is based on the classical model for the fluid-structure interaction problem, which describes the dynamic equilibrium between the fluid and the tube thin wall (Womersley, 1955b Atabek and Lew, 1966). The dynamic equilibrium is expressed by the hydrodynamic equations (Navier-Stokes) for the incompressible fluid flow and the equations of motion for the wall of an elastic tube, which are coupled together by the boundary conditions at the fluid-wall interface. The motion of the liquid is described in a fixed laboratory coordinate system (f , 6, f), and the dynamic... 

The kinetic theory of gases attempts to explain the macroscopic nonequilibrium properties of gases in terms of the microscopic properties of the individual gas molecules and the forces between them. A central aim of this theory is to provide a microscopic explanation for the fact that a wide variety of gas flows can be described by the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic equations and to provide expressions for the transport coefficients appearing in these equations, such as the coefficients of shear viscosity and thermal conductivity, in terms of the microscopic prop>erties of the molecules. We devote most of our attention in this article to this problem. 

It is clear that the general procedure used to derive the Navier-Stokes equations can be used to obtain the corrections to the hydrodynamic equations to higher order in the uniformity parameter. The order equations— the... 

This is the Qiapman-Enskog normal solution of the Boltzmann equation. When the solution is inserted into the expressions for P and Jr in the conservation laws, it leads to the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamic equations, which involve the first and second spatial derivatives of the functions /i, u, and T. If we use the order /u,, . .. terms in Eq. (119), we are led to the Burnett,... 

In most cases of physical interest the higher-order hydrodynamic equations give only a small improvement, if any, over the Navier-Stokes equations. However in Section 2.3.3 we will discuss one case, sound propagation, where the Burnett and higher-order equations do successfully improve the description of experimental results. ... 

Here Vq is the adiabatic sound velocity for an ideal gas. The coefficient A is completely determined by the transport coefficients rj and A appearing in the Navier-Stokes equations B depends on these as well as on the additional transport coefficients that appear in the Burnett hydrodynamic equations C depends on all of the transport coefficients in A and B, as well as the super-Burnett transport coefficients, and so on.t... 

In view of the apparent divergence of Navier-Stokes transport coefficients for two-dimensional systems, can one find the correct form of the hydrodynamic equations in two dimensions ... 

One can expect the problems of this kind to be not simple technically, since they involve a free boundary whose shape has to be determined simultaneously with the computation of the flow field. We shall see, however, that the difficulty is not mere technical, but extends to the physics of the problem. Our aim is to understand this basic difficulty, and therefore we formulate the flow equations in the simplest possible way. First, we restrict to slowly moving fluids and neglect inertial effects. This is, in fact, not a serious restriction, since the Reynolds number relevant for the motion in the vicinity of the contact line should be based on the local film thickness, and goes down to zero as the contact line is approached. We shall also assume here that the fluid is incompressible. Thus, the hydrodynamic equations for the velocity field u x) are the Stokes and continuity equations ... 

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