Vertically forced surface wave in weakly viscous fluids bounded in a circular cylindrical vessel
Jian Yong-Jun (菅永军)ab, E Xue-Quan (鄂学全)b
a First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China; b Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
Abstract Two-time scale perturbation expansions were developed in weakly viscous fluids to investigate surface wave motions by linearizing the Navier-Stokes equation in a circular cylindrical vessel which is subject to a vertical oscillation. The fluid field was divided into an outer potential flow region and an inner boundary layer region. A linear amplitude equation of slowly varying complex amplitude, which incorporates a damping term and external excitation, was derived for the weakly viscid fluids. The condition for the appearance of stable surface waves was obtained and the critical curve was determined. In addition, an analytical expression for the damping coefficient was determined and the relationship between damping and other related parameters (such as viscosity, forced amplitude, forced frequency and the depth of fluid, etc.) was presented. Finally, the influence both of the surface tension and the weak viscosity on the mode formation was described by comparing theoretical and experimental results. The results show that when the forcing frequency is low, the viscosity of the fluid is prominent for the mode selection. However, when the forcing frequency is high, the surface tension of the fluid is prominent.
Received: 27 November 2003
Revised: 24 March 2004
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Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 19772063, 19772068).
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Jian Yong-Jun (菅永军), E Xue-Quan (鄂学全) Vertically forced surface wave in weakly viscous fluids bounded in a circular cylindrical vessel 2004 Chinese Physics 13 1191
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