Surface, equations curvatures

The fluid phase that fills the voids between particles can be multiphase, such as oil-and-water or water-and-air. Molecules at the interface between the two fluids experience asymmetric time-average van der Waals forces. This results in a curved interface that tends to decrease in surface area of the interface. The pressure difference between the two fluids A/j = v, — 11,2 depends on the curvature of the interface characterized by radii r and r-2, and the surface tension, If (Table 2). In fluid-air interfaces, the vapor pressure is affected by the curvature of the air-water interface as expressed in Kelvin s equation. Curvature affects solubility in liquid-liquid interfaces. Unique force equilibrium conditions also develop near the tripartite point where the interface between the two fluids approaches the solid surface of a particle. The resulting contact angle 0 captures this interaction. 

This qualitative reasoning has received confirmation by calculations which assume that the growing microspheres go through a series of quasi-equilibria of different shapes. If the rate of ancient metabolism is not high, this is a fair approximation. Verhas [34] as well as Tarumi and Schwegler [35] were able to calculate the equation of motion for the membrane surface, taking curvature into account. The latter is important since large curvature has... 

For refractive surfaces, define the surface radius to be the directed distance from a surface to its center of curvature. Thus a surface convex to the incident light is positive, one concave to the incident light is negative. The surface equation is then n/s + n /s = (n -n)/R where s and s are the... 

The vacancy concentration, as with vapour pressure, depends on surface curvature. The difference in vacancy concentration Ac immediately below a surface of curvature radius r with respect to a flat surface is given by the equation... 

Equations (7.83) and (7.84) describe two important relations in sintering. Since the terms containing Q and are normally very small, they show that Pa and Pv depend primarily on the hydrostatic pressure in the solid and on the curvature of the surface. The curvature term ysvK has the units of pressure or stress, so that curvature and applied pressure effects can tha-efore be treated by the same formulation. This concept will be used in the next chapter when the sintering models are considered. 

The driving force for sintering (a reduction in excess surface free energy) is translated into a driving force that acts at the atomic level (thus resulting in atomic diffusion) by means of differences in curvature that inherently occur in different parts of the three-dimensional compact. These differences in curvature create chemical potential and vacancy concentration differences, and thus control the direction of matter transport. The relationship that links surface energy, curvature and concentration differences is the Gibbs-Thomson equation ... 

An important application of the Kelvin equation, of great importance to oil applications and environmental engineering (processes in soils), is the presence of liquids in capillaries. As there is a vapour pressure decrease outside the concave surface (negative curvature), we have condensation of the liquids inside the cracks, a phenomenon called capillary condensation. In this case the vapour pressure is reduced relative to that of a flat surface. Liquids that wet the solid wiU therefore condense into the pores at pressures below the equilibrium vapour pressure corresponding to a plane surface. 

The sign convention is to consider that the radii of curvature r and r to be positive for convex surfaces and negative for concave surfaces. Equation [3.1]... 

Equation 11-3 is a special case of a more general relationship that is the basic equation of capillarity and was given in 1805 by Young [1] and by Laplace [2]. In general, it is necessary to invoke two radii of curvature to describe a curved surface these are equal for a sphere, but not necessarily otherwise. A small section of an arbitrarily curved surface is shown in Fig. II-3. The two radii of curvature, R and / 2[Pg.6]

The exact treatment of capillary rise must take into account the deviation of the meniscus from sphericity, that is, the curvature must correspond to the AP = Ap gy at each point on the meniscus, where y is the elevation of that point above the flat liquid surface. The formal statement of the condition is obtained by writing the Young-Laplace equation for a general point (x, y) on the meniscus, with R and R2 replaced by the expressions from analytical geometry given in... 

Here, r is positive and there is thus an increased vapor pressure. In the case of water, P/ is about 1.001 if r is 10" cm, 1.011 if r is 10" cm, and 1.114 if r is 10 cm or 100 A. The effect has been verified experimentally for several liquids [20], down to radii of the order of 0.1 m, and indirect measurements have verified the Kelvin equation for R values down to about 30 A [19]. The phenomenon provides a ready explanation for the ability of vapors to supersaturate. The formation of a new liquid phase begins with small clusters that may grow or aggregate into droplets. In the absence of dust or other foreign surfaces, there will be an activation energy for the formation of these small clusters corresponding to the increased free energy due to the curvature of the surface (see Section IX-2). 

This effect assumes importance only at very small radii, but it has some applications in the treatment of nucleation theory where the excess surface energy of small clusters is involved (see Section IX-2). An intrinsic difficulty with equations such as 111-20 is that the treatment, if not modelistic and hence partly empirical, assumes a continuous medium, yet the effect does not become important until curvature comparable to molecular dimensions is reached. Fisher and Israelachvili [24] measured the force due to the Laplace pressure for a pendular ring of liquid between crossed mica cylinders and concluded that for several organic liquids the effective surface tension remained unchanged... 

Fig. 3.21 The effect of meniscus curvature on surface tension. Plot of /) against r . y is the surface tension of the meniscus having the mean radius of curvature and y that of a plane surface of liquid, according to Melrose. The value of y/y was calculated by the equation V = /x(l - with a . = 3 a.

By substitution of the strain variation through the thickness, Equation (4.13), in the stress-strain relations, Equation (4.6), the stresses in the k layer can be expressed in ternis of the laminate middle-surface strains and curvatures as... 

In conclusion, classical lamination theory enables us to calculate forces and moments if we know the strains and curvatures of the middle surface (or vice versa). Then, we can calculate the laminae stresses in laminate coordinates. Next, we can transform the laminae stresses from laminate coordinates to lamina principal material directions. Finally, we would expect to apply a failure criterion to each lamina in its own principal material directions. This process seems straightfonward in principle, but the force-strain-curvature and moment-strain-curvature relations in Equations (4.22) and (4.23) are difficult to completely understand. Thus, we attempt some simplifications in the next section in order to enhance our understanding of classical lamination theory. 

In plate theory, the problem is reduced from the deformation of a solid body to the deformation of a surface by use of the Kirchhoff hypothesis (normals to the undeformed middle surface remain straight and normal after deformation, etc., as discussed in Chapter 4). Then, we attempt to apply boundary conditions to that surface which is usually the middle surface of the plate. There should be no surprise that the boundary conditions for the unapproximated solid body are not the same as those for the solid approximated with a surface. The problem arises when these boundary conditions are applied to an approximate set of equilibrium equations that result when force-strain and moment-curvature... 

Toffoli and Margolus [tofF86] point out that what appears on the macroscopic scale is a good simulation of surface tension, in which the boundaries behave as though they are stretched membranes exerting a pull proportional to their curvature. Vichniac adds that the behavior of such twisted majority rules actually simulates the Allen-Cahn equation of surface tension rather accurately ... 

The original IlkoviC equation neglects the effect on the diffusion current of the curvature of the mercury surface. This may be allowed for by multiplying the right-hand side of the equation by (1 + ADl/2 t1/6 m 1/3), where A is a constant and has a value of 39. The correction is not large (the expression in parentheses usually has a value between 1.05 and 1.15) and account need only be taken of it in very accurate work. 

If we imagine a line drawn on the primitive surface dividing all parts of the surface which are convex downwards in all directions from those which are concave downwards in one or both directions of principal curvature, this curve will have the equation (26), and is known as the spinodal carve. It divides the surface into two parts, which represent respectively states of stable and unstable equilibrium. For on one side A is positive, and on the other it is negative. If we assume that the tie-line of corresponding points on the connodal curve is ultimately tangent to that the direction of equations ... 

The discrepancy between the coefficients in equations 11.45 and 11,46 is attributable to the fact that the effect of the curvature of the pipe wall has not been taken into account in applying the equation for flow over a plane surface to flow through a pipe. In addition, it takes no account of the existence of the laminar sub-layer at the walls. 

When the interface surface is expressed by a function x=cp (y, z) the general radii of curvature are found from the equation (Smirnov 1964) ... 

At the interface the mass and thermal balance equations are valid. If one assumes that the liquid-vapor interface curvature is constant, accordingly (7)3-71)1111 = c/T men, Where Pq and Pl are the vapor and liquid pressure at the interface, a is the surface tension, and/ men is the meniscus radius. 

VOF or level-set models are used for stratified flows where the phases are separated and one objective is to calculate the location of the interface. In these models, the momentum equations are solved for the separated phases and only at the interface are additional models used. Additional variables, such as the volume fraction of each phase, are used to identify the phases. The simplest model uses a weight average of the viscosity and density in the computational cells that are shared between the phases. Very fine resolution is, however, required for systems when surface tension is important, since an accurate estimation of the curvature of the interface is required to calculate the normal force arising from the surface tension. Usually, VOF models simulate the surface position accurately, but the space resolution is not sufficient to simulate mass transfer in liquids. 

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