Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers

With the aim of describing the mountain building process, we have previously applied the lubrication approximation to obtain the evolution equations of the problem of two stacked layers of viscous fluids with different densities and different viscosities. The lubrication approximation is a perturbat...

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spelling paper:paper_17426588_v296_n1_p_Gratton2023-06-08T16:27:17Z Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers Aspect ratio Lubrication Reynolds number Viscosity Viscous flow Different densities Evolution equations Low Reynolds number Lubrication approximations Lubrication theory Mountain building Perturbation method Viscous fluid layers Perturbation techniques With the aim of describing the mountain building process, we have previously applied the lubrication approximation to obtain the evolution equations of the problem of two stacked layers of viscous fluids with different densities and different viscosities. The lubrication approximation is a perturbation method where the small parameter is the aspect ratio (thickness/lenght) of the current. This approximation is widely used to study the slow flow of one layer of a viscous fluid, but it is not well known under which conditions it can be applied in more general settings. Here we analyze in detail the assumptions needed to apply the lubrication theory to study the flow of two stacked viscous fluid layers. We employ the same perturbation method and we found that, besides the usual conditions (low Reynolds number and gentle slope), we must require that the viscosity and density ratios are of the order of unity. These requirements determine the range of validity of the equations of our model of the mountain building. 2011 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_17426588_v296_n1_p_Gratton http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_17426588_v296_n1_p_Gratton
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topic Aspect ratio
Lubrication
Reynolds number
Viscosity
Viscous flow
Different densities
Evolution equations
Low Reynolds number
Lubrication approximations
Lubrication theory
Mountain building
Perturbation method
Viscous fluid layers
Perturbation techniques
spellingShingle Aspect ratio
Lubrication
Reynolds number
Viscosity
Viscous flow
Different densities
Evolution equations
Low Reynolds number
Lubrication approximations
Lubrication theory
Mountain building
Perturbation method
Viscous fluid layers
Perturbation techniques
Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers
topic_facet Aspect ratio
Lubrication
Reynolds number
Viscosity
Viscous flow
Different densities
Evolution equations
Low Reynolds number
Lubrication approximations
Lubrication theory
Mountain building
Perturbation method
Viscous fluid layers
Perturbation techniques
description With the aim of describing the mountain building process, we have previously applied the lubrication approximation to obtain the evolution equations of the problem of two stacked layers of viscous fluids with different densities and different viscosities. The lubrication approximation is a perturbation method where the small parameter is the aspect ratio (thickness/lenght) of the current. This approximation is widely used to study the slow flow of one layer of a viscous fluid, but it is not well known under which conditions it can be applied in more general settings. Here we analyze in detail the assumptions needed to apply the lubrication theory to study the flow of two stacked viscous fluid layers. We employ the same perturbation method and we found that, besides the usual conditions (low Reynolds number and gentle slope), we must require that the viscosity and density ratios are of the order of unity. These requirements determine the range of validity of the equations of our model of the mountain building.
title Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers
title_short Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers
title_full Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers
title_fullStr Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers
title_full_unstemmed Lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers
title_sort lubrication theory applied to the convergent flows of two stacked liquid layers
publishDate 2011
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_17426588_v296_n1_p_Gratton
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_17426588_v296_n1_p_Gratton
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