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Capillary hysteresis in a confined swirling two-fluid flow

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This experimental study describes a hysteresis—a vivid manifestation of strongly nonlinear flow physics. A sealed vertical cylindrical container of radius 45 mm and height 90 mm is filled with water and sunflower oil. The rotating lid drives swirl and themeridional circulation of both fluids. As the rotation strength Re increases, the oil–water interface rises near the axis, touches the lid at Re = Re1, and moves toward the container sidewall. Then as Re decreases, the interface returns to the axis and separates fromthe lid at Re = Re2 < Re1. At each Re from the range, Re2 < Re < Re1, two different stable steady flow states are observed, which is typical of hysteresis. The hysteresis only occurs if a volume fraction of oil is small. The hysteresis disappears as the oil fraction exceeds a threshold, which is around 0.4.

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  1. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    I. V. Naumov & B. R. Sharifullin

  2. Shtern Research and Consulting, Houston, Texas, 77096, USA

    V. N. Shtern

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Naumov, I.V., Sharifullin, B.R. & Shtern, V.N. Capillary hysteresis in a confined swirling two-fluid flow. J. Engin. Thermophys. 26, 391–398 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1810232817030092

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