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Immiscible Binary Fluid

An immiscible binary fluid was initialised with the two fluids separated by a horizontal interface. The upper fluid has tex2html_wrap_inline12083 negative. Gravity was applied to both fluids with strength tex2html_wrap_inline15449 using method (2), where tex2html_wrap_inline15451 . At temperature T=0.5 we have seen that tex2html_wrap_inline15455 in the absence of gravity. Figure 5-11

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Figure 5-11: The modulus of the ratio tex2html_wrap_inline12153 as a function of depth when gravity is applied to a binary fluid with a horizontal interface between the fluids. Gravity was applied with tex2html_wrap_inline12155 and tex2html_wrap_inline12157 .

shows the value of the modulus of the ratio tex2html_wrap_inline12153 at different depths for the immiscible fluid when tex2html_wrap_inline12155 and tex2html_wrap_inline12157 . At the interface the value of tex2html_wrap_inline15469 is different from 2.0 by no more than 4%, away from the interface the ratio appears constant with depth, and hence also with density. Thus the value of g in both fluids is given by

  equation5018

Figures 5-12 and 5-13

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Figure: The density as a function of depth for case (a) (x) and case (b) (+) shown in table 5-1. Also shown are straight lines with the gradients shown in table 5-1.

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Figure 5-13: The density as a function of depth close to the interface for case (a) (dashed lines) and case (b) (dotted lines) for tex2html_wrap_inline12095 = 0.1 and 0.001.

show the variation in density with depth for a immiscible fluid for two different sets of values tex2html_wrap_inline12159 and tex2html_wrap_inline12161 . The values are shown in table 5-1

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as are the values of tex2html_wrap_inline15539 , tex2html_wrap_inline15541 and the expected gradients tex2html_wrap_inline12163 and tex2html_wrap_inline15545 in the upper and lower fluids respectively. Straight lines with these gradients are also shown in figure 5-12. The agreement between the actual gradients and the predicted gradients is good and reinforces the use of equation (5.27) is calculating tex2html_wrap_inline15539 and tex2html_wrap_inline15541 . The details of the density close to the interface are shown in figure 5-13 for two different values of tex2html_wrap_inline12095 . The results for case (a) are shown by the dashed lines and the results for case (b) are shown by the dotted lines. It can be seen that, as before, the density is reduced slightly across the interface and that the interface is larger for tex2html_wrap_inline12111 . Away from the interface the results for tex2html_wrap_inline12417 and tex2html_wrap_inline12111 are virtually indistinguishable.


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James Buick
Tue Mar 17 17:29:36 GMT 1998