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Scale Dependence of Contact Line Computations

O. Weinstein, L. M. Pismen (2008)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

The shape and velocity of a sliding droplet are computed by solving the Navier-Stokes equation with free interface boundary conditions. The Galerkin finite element method is implemented in a 2D computation domain discretized using an unstructured mesh with triangular elements. The mesh is refined recursively at the corners (contact points). The stationary sliding velocity is found to be strongly dependent on grid refinement, which is a consequence of the contact line singularity resolved through...

Second-order sufficient optimality conditions for the optimal control of Navier-Stokes equations

Fredi Tröltzsch, Daniel Wachsmuth (2006)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

In this paper sufficient optimality conditions are established for optimal control of both steady-state and instationary Navier-Stokes equations. The second-order condition requires coercivity of the Lagrange function on a suitable subspace together with first-order necessary conditions. It ensures local optimality of a reference function in a L s -neighborhood, whereby the underlying analysis allows to use weaker norms than L .

Second-order sufficient optimality conditions for the optimal control of Navier-Stokes equations

Fredi Tröltzsch, Daniel Wachsmuth (2005)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

In this paper sufficient optimality conditions are established for optimal control of both steady-state and instationary Navier-Stokes equations. The second-order condition requires coercivity of the Lagrange function on a suitable subspace together with first-order necessary conditions. It ensures local optimality of a reference function in a Ls-neighborhood, whereby the underlying analysis allows to use weaker norms than L∞.

Self-similar solutions in weak Lp-spaces of the Navier-Stokes equations.

Oscar A. Barraza (1996)

Revista Matemática Iberoamericana

The most important result stated in this paper is a theorem on the existence of global solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations in Rn when the initial velocity belongs to the space weak Ln(Rn) with a sufficiently small norm. Furthermore, this fact leads us to obtain self-similar solutions if the initial velocity is, besides, an homogeneous function of degree -1. Partial uniqueness is also discussed.

Shape Hessian for generalized Oseen flow by differentiability of a minimax: A Lagrangian approach

Zhiming Gao, Yichen Ma, Hong Wei Zhuang (2007)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

The goal of this paper is to compute the shape Hessian for a generalized Oseen problem with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition by the velocity method. The incompressibility will be treated by penalty approach. The structure of the shape gradient and shape Hessian with respect to the shape of the variable domain for a given cost functional are established by an application of the Lagrangian method with function space embedding technique.

Shape optimization for a time-dependent model of a carousel press in glass production

Petr Salač, Jan Stebel (2019)

Applications of Mathematics

This contribution presents the shape optimization problem of the plunger cooling cavity for the time dependent model of pressing the glass products. The system of the mould, the glass piece, the plunger and the plunger cavity is considered in four consecutive time intervals during which the plunger moves between 6 glass moulds. The state problem is represented by the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations in the cavity and the doubly periodic energy equation in the whole system, under the assumption...

Shape optimization for Stokes problem with threshold slip

Jaroslav Haslinger, Jan Stebel, Taoufik Sassi (2014)

Applications of Mathematics

We study the Stokes problems in a bounded planar domain Ω with a friction type boundary condition that switches between a slip and no-slip stage. Our main goal is to determine under which conditions concerning the smoothness of Ω solutions to the Stokes system with the slip boundary conditions depend continuously on variations of Ω . Having this result at our disposal, we easily prove the existence of a solution to optimal shape design problems for a large class of cost functionals. In order to release...

Shear flows of a new class of power-law fluids

Christiaan Le Roux, Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal (2013)

Applications of Mathematics

We consider the flow of a class of incompressible fluids which are constitutively defined by the symmetric part of the velocity gradient being a function, which can be non-monotone, of the deviator of the stress tensor. These models are generalizations of the stress power-law models introduced and studied by J. Málek, V. Průša, K. R. Rajagopal: Generalizations of the Navier-Stokes fluid from a new perspective. Int. J. Eng. Sci. 48 (2010), 1907–1924. We discuss a potential application of the new...

Shear-induced Electrokinetic Lift at Large Péclet Numbers

O. Schnitzer, I. Frankel, E. Yariv (2012)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

We analyze the problem of shear-induced electrokinetic lift on a particle freely suspended near a solid wall, subject to a homogeneous (simple) shear. To this end, we apply the large-Péclet-number generic scheme recently developed by Yariv et al. (J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 685, 2011, p. 306). For a force- and torque-free particle, the driving flow comprises three components, respectively describing (i) a particle translating parallel to the wall; (ii) a particle rotating with an angular velocity vector...

Similarity solutions for high frequency excitation of liquid metal in an antisymmetric magnetic field

Bernard Brighi, Jean-David Hoernel (2006)

Banach Center Publications

The aim of this paper is to investigate, as precisely as possible, a boundary value problem involving a third order ordinary differential equation. Its solutions are the similarity solutions of a problem arising in the study of the phenomenon of high frequency excitation of liquid metal systems in an antisymmetric magnetic field within the framework of boundary layer approximation.

Smoothness of the motion of a rigid body immersed in an incompressible perfect fluid

Olivier Glass, Franck Sueur, Takéo Takahashi (2012)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

We consider the motion of a rigid body immersed in an incompressible perfect fluid which occupies a three-dimensional bounded domain. For such a system the Cauchy problem is well-posed locally in time if the initial velocity of the fluid is in the Hölder space C 1 , r . In this paper we prove that the smoothness of the motion of the rigid body may be only limited by the smoothness of the boundaries (of the body and of the domain). In particular for analytic boundaries the motion of the rigid body is analytic...

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