Stability of steady flows of perfect incompressible fluid with a free boundary

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 1148-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.I. Sedenko ◽  
V.I. Iudovich

Secondary circulation appears after fluid with a non-uniform velocity distribution passes round a bend. It alters the character of the flow and is a source of loss. A general expression is developed for its change along a streamline in a perfect, incompressible fluid. The flow in bent circular pipes is analyzed and the theory is compared with experiments on bent pipes and rectangular ducts. In bends the secondary flow is not spiral but oscillatory, the direction of the circulation changing periodically. The theory shows that secondary circulation remains unchanged if streamlines are geodesics on surfaces of constant total pressure.


1994 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
pp. 705-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARIANNA PASSERINI

In this paper we prove the existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the equations describing the steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in a porous half-space. The results are compared with those already known for the Navier-Stokes model and we find, in particular, that the behavior at large distances is strongly different depending on the value of the incoming flux through the boundary.


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