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72/2010

Occlusion Criteria in Tubes under Transverse Body Forces

Robert Manning, Steven Collicott and Robert Finn

Abstract

When a fluid in a tube is occluded, one finds a static configuration in which the occluding free surface of the fluid is an equilibrium capillary surface spanning the tube. We extend known criteria for existence and non-existence of such a surface, leading to an explicit mathematically rigorous occlusion criterion for cylindrical tubes in a transverse body force field, depending on the force magnitude and contact angle. For any contact angle γ ≠ π/2, we provide further an explicit design of a tube section, which will not occlude in a downward gravity field, regardless of the field strength. In addition we derive a precise analytic occlusion criterion for a circular vessel spinning about its axis.

Received:
Nov 18, 2010
Published:
Nov 24, 2010
MSC Codes:
76B45, 53A10
Keywords:
capillarity, surface tension, mean curvature, bond number, occlusion, nonlinear elliptic pde

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2011 Repository Open Access
Robert Manning, Steven Collicott and Robert Finn

Occlusion criteria in tubes under transverse body forces

In: Journal of fluid mechanics, 682 (2011), pp. 397-414