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Time-evolving bubbles in two-dimensional Stokes flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Saleh Tanveer and
Giovani L. Vasconcelos
Saleh Tanveer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Giovani L. Vasconcelos
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USAPresent address: Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50732-910 Recife, Brazil.
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Abstract

A general class of exact solutions is presented for a time-evolving bubble in a two-dimensional slow viscous flow in the presence of surface tension. These solutions can describe a bubble in a linear shear flow as well as an expanding or contracting bubble in an otherwise quiescent flow. In the case of expanding bubbles, the solutions have a simple behaviour in the sense that for essentially arbitrary initial shapes the bubble its asymptote is expanding circle. Contracting bubbles, on the other hand, can develop narrow structures (‘near-cusps’) on the interface and may undergo ‘breakup’ before all the bubble fluid is completely removed. The mathematical structure underlying the existence of these exact solutions is also investigated.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 301 , 25 October 1995, pp. 325 - 344
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© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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