Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics

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]. 

The relation between friction and viscosity goes beyond the Stokes relation. The Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics has been generalized by Zwanzig and Bixon [23] to include the viscoelastic response of the medium. This generalization provides an elegant expression for the frequency-dependent friction which depends among other things on the frequency-dependent bulk and shear viscosities and sound velocity. 

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. 

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,... 

Travis KP, Evans TDJ Departure from Navier—Stokes hydrodynamics in confined hquids,... 

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. 

Surface waves at an interface between two innniscible fluids involve effects due to gravity (g) and surface tension (a) forces. (In this section, o denotes surface tension and a denotes the stress tensor. The two should not be coiifiised with one another.) In a hydrodynamic approach, the interface is treated as a sharp boundary and the two bulk phases as incompressible. The Navier-Stokes equations for the two bulk phases (balance of macroscopic forces is the mgredient) along with the boundary condition at the interface (surface tension o enters here) are solved for possible hamionic oscillations of the interface of the fomi, exp [-(iu + s)t + i V-.r], where m is the frequency, is the damping coefficient, s tlie 2-d wavevector of the periodic oscillation and. ra 2-d vector parallel to the surface. For a liquid-vapour interface which we consider, away from the critical point, the vapour density is negligible compared to the liquid density and one obtains the hydrodynamic dispersion relation for surface waves + s>tf. The temi gq in the dispersion relation arises from... 

Reviews of concentration polarization have been reported (14,38,39). Because solute wall concentration may not be experimentally measurable, models relating solute and solvent fluxes to hydrodynamic parameters are needed for system design. The Navier-Stokes diffusion—convection equation has been numerically solved to calculate wall concentration, and thus the water flux and permeate quaUty (40). 

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>... 

The basic model equations for a description of hydrodynamical flow are the Navier-Stokes equations, representing momentum conservation in the fluid... 

In this section we show how the fundamental equations of hydrodynamics — namely, the continuity equation (equation 9.3), Euler s equation (equation 9.7) and the Navier-Stokes equation (equation 9.16) - can all be recovered from the Boltzman equation by exploiting the fact that in any microscopic collision there are dynamical quantities that are always conserved namely (for spinless particles), mass, momentum and energy. The derivations in this section follow mostly [huangk63]. 

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. 

For more complicated physical situations, the results again deviate from the usual Navier-Stokes relations, and may be useful in investigating rapidly varying phenomena that cannot be explained in the usual (hydrodynamic) fashion. 

In Spite of the existence of numerous experimental and theoretical investigations, a number of principal problems related to micro-fluid hydrodynamics are not well-studied. There are contradictory data on the drag in micro-channels, transition from laminar to turbulent flow, etc. That leads to difficulties in understanding the essence of this phenomenon and is a basis for questionable discoveries of special microeffects (Duncan and Peterson 1994 Ho and Tai 1998 Plam 2000 Herwig 2000 Herwig and Hausner 2003 Gad-el-Hak 2003). The latter were revealed by comparison of experimental data with predictions of a conventional theory based on the Navier-Stokes equations. The discrepancy between these data was interpreted as a display of new effects of flow in micro-channels. It should be noted that actual conditions of several experiments were often not identical to conditions that were used in the theoretical models. For this reason, the analysis of sources of disparity between the theory and experiment is of significance. 

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. 

If the Brownian particles were macroscopic in size, the solvent could be treated as a viscous continuum, and the particles would couple to the continuum solvent through appropriate boundary conditions. Then the two-particle friction may be calculated by solving the Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of the two fixed particles. The simplest approximation for hydrodynamic interactions is through the Oseen tensor [54],... 

Here we focus on yet another implementation, the single-particle hydrodynamic approach or QFD-DFT, which provides a natural link between DFT and Bohmian trajectories. The corresponding derivation is based on the realization that the density, p(r, t), and the current density, j(r, t) satisfy a coupled set of classical fluid, Navier-Stokes equations ... 

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 ... 

When considering flow of a liquid in contact with a solid surface, a basic understanding of the hydrodynamic behavior at the interface is required. This begins with the Navier-Stokes equation for constant-viscosity, incompressible fluid flow, such that Sp/Sf = 0,... 

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... 

Any hydrodynamic consideration of a drop moving in a liquid field starts with the Navier-Stokes equations of motion, as given in representative books on fluid mechanics (L2, Sll). Using vector notation to conserve space, these equations may be written (B3, B4)... 

At larger Re and for more marked deformation, theoretical approaches have had limited success. There have been no numerical solutions to the full Navier-Stokes equation for steady flow problems in which the shape, as well as the flow, has been an unknown. Savic (S3) suggested a procedure whereby the shape of a drop is determined by a balance of normal stresses at the interface. This approach has been extended by Pruppacher and Pitter (P6) for water drops falling through air and by Wairegi (Wl) for drops and bubbles in liquids. The drop or bubble adopts a shape where surface tension pressure increments, hydrostatic pressures, and hydrodynamic pressures are in balance at every point. Thus... 

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