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Coutinho ÍM, Miranda JA. Role of interfacial rheology on fingering instabilities in lifting Hele-Shaw flows. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:025104. [PMID: 37723719 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.025104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
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The lifting Hele-Shaw cell setup is a popular modification of the classic, fixed-gap, radial viscous fingering problem. In the lifting cell configuration, the upper cell plate is lifted such that a more viscous inner fluid is invaded by an inward-moving outer fluid. As the fluid-fluid interface contracts, one observes the rising of distinctive patterns in which penetrating fingers having rounded tips compete among themselves, reaching different lengths. Despite the scholarly and practical relevance of this confined lifting flow problem, the impact of interfacial rheology effects on its pattern-forming dynamics has been overlooked. Authors of recent studies on the traditional injection-induced radial Hele-Shaw flow and its centrifugally driven variant have shown that, if the fluid-fluid interface is structured (i.e., laden with surfactants, particles, proteins, or other surface-active entities), surface rheological stresses start to act, influencing the development of the viscous fingering patterns. In this paper, we investigate how interfacial rheology affects the stability as well as the shape of the emerging fingered structures in lifting Hele-Shaw flows, at linear and early nonlinear dynamic stages. We tackle the problem by utilizing the Boussinesq-Scriven model to describe the interface and by employing a perturbative mode-coupling scheme. Our linear stability results show that interfacial rheology effects destabilize the interface. Furthermore, our second-order findings indicate that interfacial rheology significantly alters intrinsically nonlinear morphological features of the shrinking interface, inducing the formation of narrow sharp-tip penetrating fingers and favoring enhanced competition among them.
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Affiliation(s)
- Írio M Coutinho
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, CCEN, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, CCEN, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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Coutinho ÍM, Dias EO, Miranda JA. Effect of interfacial rheology on fingering patterns in rotating Hele-Shaw cells. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:025105. [PMID: 36932566 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.025105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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In rotating Hele-Shaw flows, centrifugal force acts, and the interface separating two viscous fluids becomes unstable, driven by the density difference between them. Complex interfacial structures develop where fingers of various shapes and sizes grow, and compete. These patterns have been well studied over the last few decades, analytically, numerically, and experimentally. However, one feature of the pattern-forming dynamics of much current interest has been underappreciated: the role of surface rheological stresses in the deformation, and time evolution of the fluid-fluid interface. In this paper, we employ a perturbative, second-order mode-coupling analysis to investigate how interfacial rheology effects influence centrifugally driven fingering phenomena, beyond the scope of linear stability theory. Describing the viscous Newtonian interface by using a Boussinesq-Scriven model, we derive a nonlinear differential equation that governs the early linear, and nonlinear time evolution of the system. In this framing, the most prevalent dynamical features of the patterns are described in terms of two dimensionless parameters: the viscosity contrast A (dimensionless viscosity difference between the fluids), and the Boussinesq number Bq which involves a ratio between interfacial and bulk viscosities. At the linear level, our results show that for a given A, surface rheological stresses dictated by Bq have a stabilizing role. Nevertheless, our weakly nonlinear findings reveal a more elaborate scenario in which the shape of the fingers, and their finger competition behavior result from the coupled influence of A and Bq. It is found that, although finger competition phenomena depend on the specific values of A and Bq, the fingers tend to widen as Bq is increased, regardless of the value of A.
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- Írio M Coutinho
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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Conrado H, Dias EO, Miranda JA. Impact of interfacial rheology on finger tip splitting. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:015103. [PMID: 36797856 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.015103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Fluid-fluid interfaces, laden with polymers, surfactants, lipid bilayers, proteins, solid particles, or other surface-active agents, often exhibit a rheologically complex response to deformations. Despite its academic and practical relevance to fluid dynamics and various other fields of research, the role of interfacial rheology in viscous fingering remains fairly underexplored. A noteworthy exception is the work by Li and Manikantan [Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 074001 (2021)2469-990X10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.074001], who used linear stability analysis to show that surface rheological stresses act to stabilize the development of radial viscous fingering at the linear regime. In this paper, we perform a perturbative, second-order mode-coupling analysis of the system and investigate the influence of interfacial rheology on the morphology of the fingering structures at early nonlinear stages of the dynamics. In particular, we focus on understanding how interfacial rheology impacts the emblematic finger tip-widening and finger tip-splitting phenomena that take place in radial viscous fingering in Hele-Shaw cells. We describe the viscous Newtonian fluid-fluid interface by using a Boussinesq-Scriven model, and derive a generalized Young-Laplace pressure jump condition at the fluid-fluid interface. In this framing, we go beyond the purely linear description and use Darcy's law to obtain a perturbative mode-coupling differential equation which describes the time evolution of the perturbation amplitudes, accurate to second order. Our early nonlinear mode-coupling results indicate that regardless of their stabilizing action at the linear regime, interfacial rheology effects favor finger tip widening, leading to the occurrence of enhanced finger tip-splitting events.
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- Habakuk Conrado
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901 Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901 Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901 Brazil
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Chang SJ, Chen CH, Chen KC. Assessment of the mechanical suppression of nonuniform electrodeposition in lithium metal batteries. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:11086-11095. [PMID: 35471206 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05310h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dendrite formation is a long-standing issue in lithium metal batteries. Replacing the conventional liquid electrolytes with semi-solid ones, the non-uniform lithium growth can be potentially mitigated by the mechanical deformation in the solid matrix. The underlying dendrite suppression mechanism is investigated in this study using a mechano-electrochemical phase-field method. Two indicators, namely the arithmetic average height and the elongation rate, are proposed to characterize the surface roughness of lithium dendrites. Our simulation results are summarized in two-dimensional design maps as a function of the porosity and the elastic modulus of the semi-solid electrolytes, which could provide us the guidance for the development of dendrite-free lithium metal batteries.
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- Shuenn-Jyh Chang
- Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
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Chen CY, Lin TS, Miranda JA. Rotationally induced fingering patterns in a two-dimensional heterogeneous porous medium. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:053105. [PMID: 27967138 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.053105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Rotating fluid flows under two-dimensional homogeneous porous media conditions (or in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell) reveal the development of complex interfacial fingering patterns. These pattern-forming structures are characterized by the occurrence of finger competition events, finger pinch-off episodes, as well as by the production of satellite droplets. In this work, we use intensive numerical simulations to investigate how these fully nonlinear pattern growth phenomena are altered by the presence of permeability heterogeneities in the rotating porous medium. This is done by employing a diffuse-interface Darcy-Cahn-Hilliard description of the problem and considering a permeability field presenting a log-Gaussian distribution, characterized by a variance s and a correlation length l. We study how the heterogeneity measures s and l couple to the governing hydrodynamic dimensionless parameters of the problem and introduce important changes on the pattern formation dynamics of the system.
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- Ching-Yao Chen
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 30010, Republic of China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 30010, Republic of China
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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Chen CY, Huang YC, Huang YS, Miranda JA. Enhanced mixing via alternating injection in radial Hele-Shaw flows. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:043008. [PMID: 26565333 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.043008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Mixing at low Reynolds numbers, especially in the framework of confined flows occurring in Hele-Shaw cells, porous media, and microfluidic devices, has attracted considerable attention lately. Under such circumstances, enhanced mixing is limited due to the lack of turbulence, and absence of sizable inertial effects. Recent studies, performed in rectangular Hele-Shaw cells, have demonstrated that the combined action of viscous fluid fingering and alternating injection can dramatically improve mixing efficiency. In this work, we revisit this important fluid mechanical problem, and analyze it in the context of radial Hele-Shaw flows. The development of radial fingering instabilities under alternating injection conditions is investigated by intensive numerical simulations. We focus on the impact of the relevant physical parameters of the problem (Péclet number Pe, viscosity contrast A, and injection time interval Δt) on fluid mixing performance.
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- Ching-Yao Chen
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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Anjos PHA, Miranda JA. Influence of wetting on fingering patterns in lifting Hele-Shaw flows. SOFT MATTER 2014; 10:7459-7467. [PMID: 25007292 DOI: 10.1039/c4sm01047g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We study the pattern formation dynamics related to the displacement of a viscous wetting fluid by a less viscous nonwetting fluid in a lifting Hele-Shaw cell. A perturbative weakly nonlinear analysis of the problem is presented. We focus on examining how wetting effects influence the morphology of the emerging interfacial patterns at the early nonlinear regime. Our analytical results indicate that wettability has a significant impact on the resulting nonlinear patterns. It restrains finger length variability while inducing the development of structures presenting short, blunt penetrating fingers of the nonwetting fluid, alternated by short, sharp fingers of the wetting fluid. The basic mode-coupling mechanisms leading to such behavior are discussed.
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- Pedro H A Anjos
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil.
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Carvalho GD, Gadêlha H, Miranda JA. Elastic fingering in rotating Hele-Shaw flows. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:053019. [PMID: 25353892 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.053019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The centrifugally driven viscous fingering problem arises when two immiscible fluids of different densities flow in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell. In this conventional setting an interplay between capillary and centrifugal forces makes the fluid-fluid interface unstable, leading to the formation of fingered structures that compete dynamically and reach different lengths. In this context, it is known that finger competition is very sensitive to changes in the viscosity contrast between the fluids. We study a variant of such a rotating flow problem where the fluids react and produce a gellike phase at their separating boundary. This interface is assumed to be elastic, presenting a curvature-dependent bending rigidity. A perturbative weakly nonlinear approach is used to investigate how the elastic nature of the interface affects finger competition events. Our results unveil a very different dynamic scenario, in which finger length variability is not regulated by the viscosity contrast, but rather determined by two controlling quantities: a characteristic radius and a rigidity fraction parameter. By properly tuning these quantities one can describe a whole range of finger competition behaviors even if the viscosity contrast is kept unchanged.
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- Gabriel D Carvalho
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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- Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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Chen CY, Huang YS, Miranda JA. Radial Hele-Shaw flow with suction: fully nonlinear pattern formation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:053006. [PMID: 25353879 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.053006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We study the development of intricate, fully nonlinear immiscible interfacial patterns in the suction-driven radial Hele-Shaw problem. The complex-shaped, contracting fluid-fluid interface arises when an initially circular blob of more viscous fluid, surrounded by less viscous one, is drawn into an eccentric point sink. We present sophisticated numerical simulations, based on a diffuse interface model, that capture the most prominent interfacial features revealed by existing experimental studies of the problem. The response of the system to changes in the capillary number is investigated, accurately revealing the occurrence of finger competition phenomena, and correctly describing the velocity behavior of both inward- and outward-pointing fingers. For the large-capillary-number regime, a set of complex interfacial features (finger merging, shielding, and pinch-off) whose experimental realization is still not available, are predicted.
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- Ching-Yao Chen
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 30010 Republic of China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 30010 Republic of China
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901 Brazil
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Rocha FM, Miranda JA. Control of centrifugal fingering via a variable interfacial tension approach. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:033008. [PMID: 24125345 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.033008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We study the centrifugal fingering instabilities that occur in rotating Hele-Shaw cells containing two different fluids. A weakly nonlinear analysis of the problem is performed, considering that the surface tension between the rotating fluids changes with the local curvature of the interface. It is shown that the coupling between the contact angle and the variable interfacial tension permits the control of the interface disturbances. As a result, linear perturbations and nonlinear finger competition phenomena can be properly controlled and suppressed.
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- Francisco M Rocha
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50670-901, Brazil
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Dias EO, Miranda JA. Control of centrifugally driven fingering in a tapered Hele-Shaw cell. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 87:053014. [PMID: 23767627 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.053014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Conventional studies of the centrifugally driven fingering instability are performed in rotating Hele-Shaw cells presenting perfectly parallel plates. In this setup, the fluid-fluid interface can become unstable due to the density difference between the fluids, forming a variety of complex patterns. We study a modified, tapered version of this rotating flow problem where the cell plates are not exactly parallel, but present a constant gap gradient in the radial direction. Our analytical results indicate that the stability of the interface is significantly sensitive to the presence of the depth gradient. This allows a proper monitoring of pattern-forming features just by slightly changing the cell's taper angle. In this context, we have verified that by manipulating the sign and magnitude of the gap gradient one can favor, restrain, or even suppress the development of centrifugally driven instabilities. A taper-induced mechanism for the selection of the number of emerging fingers is also discussed.
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- Eduardo O Dias
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50670-901 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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