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Instabilities in flexible channel flow with large external pressure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

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Peter S. Stewart*
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Mathematics and Statistics Building, University of Glasgow, University Place, GlasgowG12 8SQ, UK
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†Email address for correspondence: Peter.Stewart@glasgow.ac.uk
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Abstract

We examine the stability of laminar high-Reynolds-number flow through an asymmetric flexible-walled channel driven by a fixed upstream flux and subject to a (large) uniform external pressure. We construct a long-wavelength, spatially one-dimensional model using a flow profile assumption, modelling the flexible wall as a thin tensioned membrane subject to a large axial pre-stress. We numerically construct the non-uniform static shape of the flexible wall and consider its stability using both a global eigensolver and numerical simulation of the nonlinear governing equations. The system admits multiple static solutions, including a highly collapsed steady state where the membrane has a single constriction which increases with increasing external pressure. We demonstrate that the non-uniform static state is unstable to two distinct (infinite) families of normal modes which we characterise in the limit of large external pressure. In particular, there is a family of low-frequency oscillatory modes which each persist to low membrane tensions, where the most unstable mode has an oscillating membrane profile which is outwardly bulged at the centre of the domain with a narrow constriction at the downstream end. In addition, there is a family of high-frequency oscillatory modes which are each unstable beyond a critical value of the tension within a two-branch neutral curve. Unstable modes along the lower branch of the neutral curve are sustained by a leading-order balance between unsteady inertia and the restoring force of membrane tension along the channel. In addition, we elucidate the mechanism of energy transfer to sustain the self-excited oscillations: oscillations decrease the mean maximal constriction of the channel over a period, which reduces the overall dissipation of the mean flow and releases energy to sustain the instability. Fully nonlinear simulations indicate that as the Reynolds number increases these unstable normal modes can grow supercritically into sustained large-amplitude ‘slamming’ oscillations, where the membrane is periodically drawn very close to the opposite rigid wall before recovering.

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Biological Fluid Dynamics: Biological Fluid Dynamics
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 825 , 25 August 2017 , pp. 922 - 960
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