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Viscoplastic boundary layers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2017

N. J. Balmforth ,
R. V. Craster ,
D. R. Hewitt ,
S. Hormozi  and
A. Maleki
N. J. Balmforth
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada
R. V. Craster
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
D. R. Hewitt*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
S. Hormozi
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701-2979, USA
A. Maleki
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
*
†Email address for correspondence: drh39@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

In the limit of a large yield stress, or equivalently at the initiation of motion, viscoplastic flows can develop narrow boundary layers that provide either surfaces of failure between rigid plugs, the lubrication between a plugged flow and a wall or buffers for regions of predominantly plastic deformation. Oldroyd (Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., vol. 43, 1947, pp. 383–395) presented the first theoretical discussion of these viscoplastic boundary layers, offering an asymptotic reduction of the governing equations and a discussion of some model flow problems. However, the complicated nonlinear form of Oldroyd’s boundary-layer equations has evidently precluded further discussion of them. In the current paper, we revisit Oldroyd’s viscoplastic boundary-layer analysis and his canonical examples of a jet-like intrusion and flow past a thin plate. We also consider flow down channels with either sudden expansions or wavy walls. In all these examples, we verify that viscoplastic boundary layers form as envisioned by Oldroyd. For each example, we extract the dependence of the boundary-layer thickness and flow profiles on the dimensionless yield-stress parameter (Bingham number). We find that, while Oldroyd’s boundary-layer theory applies to free viscoplastic shear layers, it does not apply when the boundary layer is adjacent to a wall, as has been observed previously for two-dimensional flow around circular obstructions. Instead, the boundary-layer thickness scales in a different fashion with the Bingham number, as suggested by classical solutions for plane-parallel flows, lubrication theory and, for flow around a plate, by Piau (J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., vol. 102, 2002, pp. 193–218); we rationalize this second scaling and provide an alternative boundary-layer theory.

JFM classification

Low-Reynolds-number flows: Low-Reynolds-number flows Non-Newtonian Flows: Non-Newtonian Flows Non-Newtonian Flows: Plastic materials
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 813 , 25 February 2017 , pp. 929 - 954
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