Thermoviscous coating and rimming flow

George Adam Leslie, Stephen Wilson, Brian Duffy

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Abstract

A comprehensive description is obtained of steady thermoviscous (i.e. with
temperature-dependent viscosity) coating and rimming flow on a uniformly rotating horizontal cylinder which is uniformly hotter or colder than the surrounding atmosphere. It is found that, as in the corresponding isothermal problem, there is a critical solution with a corresponding critical load (which depends, in general, on both the Biot number B and the thermoviscosity number V ) above which no “full-film” solutions corresponding to a continuous film of fluid covering the entire outside or inside of the cylinder exist. The effect of thermoviscosity on both the critical solution and the full-film solution with a prescribed load is described. In particular, there are no full-film solutions with a prescribed load M for any value of B when M ¸ ˆ f−1/2Mc0 for positive V and when M > Mc0 for negative V , where ˆ f is a monotonically decreasing function of V and Mc0 ' 4.44272 is the critical load in the constant-viscosity case. It is also found that when the prescribed load satisfies M < 1.50315 there is a narrow region of the B–V parameter plane in which backflow occurs.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)483-511
Number of pages29
JournalQuarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics
Volume65
Issue number4
Early online date22 Oct 2012
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • thermoviscous coating
  • rimming flow
  • temperature-dependent viscosity

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