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ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 37, Number 5, September-October 2003
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| Page(s) | 741 - 753 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an:2003042 | |
| Published online | 15 November 2003 | |
Modelling of Miscible Liquids with the Korteweg Stress
1
Université de Franche-Comté, UMR 6623 CNRS, 25030 Besançon, France. kostin@pdmi.ras.ru.
2
École Centrale de Lyon, UMR 5585 CNRS, 69134 Ecully Cedex, France. Martine.Marion@ec-lyon.fr.
3
Université Lyon 1, UMR 5585 CNRS,
69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
texier@maply.univ-lyon1.fr.,
volpert@maply.univ-lyon1.fr.
Received:
4
November
2002
When two miscible fluids, such as glycerol (glycerin) and water, are brought in contact, they immediately diffuse in each other. However if the diffusion is sufficiently slow, large concentration gradients exist during some time. They can lead to the appearance of an “effective interfacial tension”. To study these phenomena we use the mathematical model consisting of the diffusion equation with convective terms and of the Navier-Stokes equations with the Korteweg stress. We prove the global existence and uniqueness of the solution for the associated initial-boundary value problem in a two-dimensional bounded domain. We study the longtime behavior of the solution and show that it converges to the uniform composition distribution with zero velocity field. We also present numerical simulations of miscible drops and show how transient interfacial phenomena can change their shape.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35K50 / 76D05
Key words: Miscible liquids / Korteweg stress / drops.
© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2003
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