Hinton, Edward;
Hewitt, Duncan;
Hogg, Andrew;
(2023)
Obstructed free-surface viscoplastic flow on an inclined plane.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
, 964
, Article A35. 10.1017/jfm.2023.389.
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Abstract
The interaction of steady free-surface flows of viscoplastic material with a surface-piercing obstruction of square cross-section on an inclined plane is investigated theoretically. The flow thickness increases upstream of the obstruction and decreases in its lee. The flow depends on two dimensionless parameters: an aspect ratio that relates the flow thickness, the obstruction width and the plane inclination; and a Bingham number that quantifies the magnitude of the yield stress relative to the gravitationally induced stresses. Flows with a non-vanishing yield stress always form a static ‘dead’ zone in a neighbourhood of the upstream and downstream stagnation points. For relatively wide obstructions, a deep ‘ponded’ region develops upstream with a small dead zone, while the deflected flow reconnects over relatively long distances downstream. The depth of the upstream pond increases with both the dimensionless yield stress and width of the obstruction, while the unyielded dead zone varies primarily with the yield stress. Both are predicted asymptotically by balancing the volume flux of fluid into and out of the ponded region. When the obstruction is narrow, the perturbation to the depth of the oncoming flow is reduced. It exhibits fore–aft antisymmetry, while the dead zone is symmetric to leading order. Increasing the yield stress leads to larger dead zones that eventually encompass all of the upstream- and downstream-facing boundaries of the obstruction and fully divert the flow. Results for obstructions with circular and rhomboidal cross-sections are also presented and illustrate the effects of boundary shape on the properties of the steady flow.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Obstructed free-surface viscoplastic flow on an inclined plane |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/jfm.2023.389 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.389 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10170454 |
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