Bifurcation and Stability of Complex Flows.

Abstract

The work performed under this Contract was principally concerned with the theoretical investigation of bifurcation and stability phenomena in complex fluid flows. A major part of the effort was devoted to the study of viscoelastic fluids, with special was devoted to the study of viscoelastic fluids, with special emphasis on the problems concerned with convective instabilities. Both model systems and fluid governing equations were investigated. The dependence of predicted behavior on constitutive relations became very clear. Other convection-type problems considered included coupled thermal loops and convection pattern in the presence of a melting-freezing interface. Keywords: Stability of fluid flows; Bifurcation phenomena; Viscoelastic fluids; Nonlinear hydrodynamic stability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 10, 1985
Accession Number
ADA161405

Entities

People

  • S. Rosenblat

Organizations

  • Illinois Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Constitutive Equations
  • Contracts
  • Convection
  • Differential Equations
  • Elastic Properties
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Energy
  • Illinois
  • Instability
  • Liquid Filled Projectiles
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Shear Flow
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design