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Geometric shapes of the interface surface of bicomponent flows between two concentric rotating cylinders

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  • College of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China

Received date: 1900-01-01

  Revised date: 1900-01-01

  Online published: 2008-10-01

Abstract

In this paper, the shape problem of interface of bicomponent flows between two concentric rotating cylinders is investigated. With tensor analysis, the problem is reduced to an energy functional isoperimetric problem when neglecting the effects of the dissipative energy caused by viscosity. We derive the associated Euler-Lagrangian equation, which is a nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem of the second order. Moreover, by considering the effects of the dissipative energy, we propose another total energy functional to characterize the geometric shape of the interface, and obtain the corresponding Euler-Lagrangian equation, which is also a nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem of the second order. Thus, the problem of the geometric shape is converted into a nonlinear boundary value problem of the second order in both cases.

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LI Kai-tai;SHI Feng . Geometric shapes of the interface surface of bicomponent flows between two concentric rotating cylinders[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2008 , 29(10) : 1363 -1376 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-008-1011-y

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