10 research outputs found
Steady rimming flows with surface tension
We examine steady flows of a thin film of viscous fluid on the inside of a cylinder with horizontal axis, rotating about this axis. If the amount of fluid in the cylinder is sufficiently small, all of it is entrained by rotation and the film is distributed more or less evenly. For medium amounts, the fluid accumulates on the ârisingâ side of the cylinder and, for large ones, pools at the cylinderâs bottom. The paper examines rimming flows with a pool affected by weak surface tension. Using the lubrication approximation and the method of matched asymptotics, we find a solution describing the pool, the âouterâ region, and two transitional regions, one of which includes a variable (depending on the small parameter) number of asymptotic zones
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Modelling and experimental evidence of the cathode erosion in a plasma spray torch
The lifetime of tungsten cathodes used in plasma spray torches is limited by processes leading to a loss of cathode material. It was reported in the literature that the mechanism of their erosion is the evaporation. A model of the ionization layer of a cathode is developed to study the diffusive transport of evaporated tungsten atoms and tungsten ions produced due to ionization by electron impact in a background argon plasma. It is shown that the Stefan-Maxwell equations do not reduce to Fick law as one could expect for the transport of diluted species, which is due to significant diffusion velocities of argon ions. The ionization of tungsten atoms occurs in a distance of a few micrometers from the cathode surface and leads to a strong sink, which increases the net flux of tungsten atoms far beyond that obtained in absence of tungsten ions. This shows that the tungsten ions are driven by the electric field towards the cathode resulting in no net diffusive flux and no removal of tungsten species from the ionization layer even if convection is accounted for. A possible mechanism of removal is found by extending the model to comprise an anode. The extended model resolves the inter-electrode region and provides the plasma parameters for a current density corresponding to the value at the center of the cathode under typical arc currents of 600 A and 800 A. The presence of the anode causes a reversal of the electric field on the anode side, which pulls the ions away from the ionization layer of the cathode. The net flux of tungsten ions can be further fortified by convection. This model allows one to evaluate the loss of cathode material under realistic operating conditions in a quantitative agreement with measured values
High-dimensional interior crisis in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
An investigation of interior crisis of high dimensions in an extended spatiotemporal system exemplified by the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation is reported. It is shown that unstable periodic orbits and their associated invariant manifolds in the Poincaré hyperplane can effectively characterize the global bifurcation dynamics of high-dimensional systems.A. C.-L. Chian, E. L. Rempel, E. E. Macau, R. R. Rosa, and F. Christianse
Peculiar property of noble gases and its explanation through the Enskog-Vlasov model
An observation is presented that the ratio of the critical and triple-point temperatures T-cr/T-tp of neon, argon, krypton, and xenon fit within a narrow interval, T-cr/T-tp = 1.803 +/- 0.5%, and the same applies to the density ratio, n(cr)/n(tp) = 0.3782 +/- 1.7% (of the two remaining noble gases, helium does not have a triple point and, for radon, n(tp) is unknown). We explain this peculiar property by the fact that the molecules of noble gases are nearly spherical, as a result of which they satisfy the Enskog-Vlasov (EV) kinetic model based on the approximation of hard spheres. The EV model has also allowed us to identify two more parameter combinations which are virtually the same for all noble gases
On the theory of structures in near-electrode plasma regions
SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RO 9159(11-A1-91) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman