Bulk viscosity suppresses elliptic flow v2, as does shear viscosity. It can thus not be neglected when extracting the shear viscosity from elliptic flow data. We here explore uncertainties in the bulk viscous contribution to viscous v2 suppression that arise from presently uncontrolled uncertainties in the initial value of the bulk viscous pressure and its microscopic relaxation time.

We study the compression of viscous filaments at constant velocity. If slender enough, the filament bends, a viscous analogue of Euler elastic buckling. We measure the characteristic time of this viscous buckling and discuss the link with the elastic critical compression. We show that the analogy only holds in the limit of large capillary numbers. Otherwise capillarity has a stabilizing effect,...

Capillary instability of a liquid cylinder immersed in another liquid is analyzed using viscous potential flow. An effect of viscosity on the irrotational motion may be introduced by evaluating the viscous normal stress at the liquid-liquid interface on the irrotational motions. In a second approximation, the explicit effects of the discontinuity of the shear stress and tangential component of ...

The vortex–in–cell method for three-dimensional, viscous flow was presented. A viscous splitting algorithm was used. Initially the Euler inviscid equation was solved. Following that, the viscous effect was taken into account by the solution of the diffusion equation. The diffusion equation was then solved by the particle strength exchange (PSE) method. Validation of the method was tested by sim...

In this paper, we study the effects of Hall and ion-slip currents on the steady magneto-micropolar of a viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid over a horizontal plate by taking in to account the viscous dissipation effects. By means of similarity solutions, deviation of fundamental equations on the assumption of small magnetic Reynolds number are solved numerically by using qu...

The influence of physical damping on the numerical stability of time integration analysis is an open question since decades ago. In this paper, it is shown that, under specific very general conditions, physical damping can be disregarded when studying the numerical stability. It is also shown that, provided the specific conditions are met, analysis of structural systems involved in extremely hi...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods for viscous computations often require high quality computational meshes. The viscous layer area needs to be meshed at a high resolution, leading to highly anisotropic meshes. The methodology developed in this article addresses this issue, enabling the creation of a viscous layer in a tetrahedral (or hybrid polyhedral) mesh, so that the inner meshing i...

This paper contains a qualitative study of a scalar conservation law with viscosity: ut + f(u)x = uxx . We consider the problem of identifying the location of viscous shocks, thus obtaining an optimal finite dimensional description of solutions to the viscous conservation law. We introduce a nonlinear functional whose minimizers yield the viscous travelling profiles which “optimally fit” the gi...

In the civil engineering field, fluid viscous dampers, used extensively in military applications, have found commercial applications on buildings and bridges subjected to seismic and/or wind storm inputs. Because fluid damping technology was proven thoroughly reliable and robust, implementation on footbridges to suppress undesirable pedestrian-induced vibrations is taking place. . This presenta...

Viscous fingering is a well-known hydrodynamic instability that sets in when a less viscous fluid displaces a more viscous fluid. When the two fluids are miscible, viscous fingering introduces disorder in the velocity field and exerts a fundamental control on the rate at which the fluids mix. Here we analyze the characteristic signature of the mixing process in viscously unstable flows, by mean...