• Media type: Text; Report; E-Book
  • Title: Stability of concentrated suspensions under Couette and Poiseuille flow
  • Contributor: Ahnert, Tobias [Author]; Münch, Andreas [Author]; Niethammer, Barbara [Author]; Wagner, Barbara [Author]
  • Published: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2015
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2159
  • Keywords: 76T20 ; 76E17 ; 83.80.Hj ; stability analysis -- suspensions -- yield stress -- multiphase flow model ; 76E15 ; article
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  • Description: The stability of two-dimensional Poiseuille flow and plane Couette flow for concentrated suspensions is investigated. Linear stability analysis of the two-phase flow model for both flow geometries shows the existence of a convectively driven instability with increasing growth rates of the unstable modes as the particle volume fraction of the suspension increases. In addition it is shown that there exists a bound for the particle phase viscosity below which the two-phase flow model may become ill-posed as the particle phase approaches its maximum packing fraction. The case of two-dimensional Poiseuille flow gives rise to base state solutions that exhibit a jammed and unyielded region, due to shear-induced migration, as the maximum packing fraction is approached. The stability characteristics of the resulting Bingham-type flow is investigated and connections to the stability problem for the related classical Bingham-flow problem are discussed.
  • Access State: Open Access