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Labyrinthine and secondary wave instabilities of a miscible magnetic fluid drop in a Hele-Shaw cell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2017

Huanhao Li ,
Chun-Yi Kao  and
Chih-Yung Wen Open the ORCID record for Chih-Yung Wen [Opens in a new window]
Huanhao Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Interdisciplinary Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Chun-Yi Kao
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan
Chih-Yung Wen*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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†Email address for correspondence: cywen@polyu.edu.hk
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Abstract

A comprehensive experimental study is presented to analyse the instabilities of a magnetic fluid drop surrounded by miscible fluid confined in a Hele-Shaw cell. The experimental conditions include different magnetic fields (by varying the maximum pre-set magnetic field strengths, $H$ , and sweep rates, $SR=\text{d}H_{t}/\text{d}t$ , where $H_{t}$ is the instant magnetic field strength), gap spans, $h$ , and magnetic fluid samples, and are further coupled into a modified Péclect number $Pe^{\prime }$ to evaluate the instabilities. Two distinct instabilities are induced by the external magnetic fields with different sweep rates: (i) a labyrinthine fingering instability, where small fingerings emerge around the initial circular interface in the early period, and (ii) secondary waves in the later period. Based on 81 sets of experimental conditions, the initial growth rate of the interfacial length, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ , of the magnetic drop is found to increase linearly with $Pe^{\prime }$ , indicating that $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ is proportional to the square root of the $SR$ and $h^{3/2}$ at the onset of the labyrinthine instability. In addition, secondary waves, which are characterised by the dimensionless wavelength $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}/h$ , can only be triggered when the three-dimensional magnetic microconvection is strong enough to make $Pe^{\prime }$ exceed a critical value, i.e. $Pe^{\prime }>19\,000$ , where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}$ is the wavelength of the secondary wave. In this flow regime of high $Pe^{\prime }$ , the length scale of the secondary wave instability is found to be $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}=7\pm 1$ , corresponding to the Stokes regime; meanwhile, in the flow regime of low $Pe^{\prime }$ , the flow corresponds to the Hele-Shaw regime introduced by Fernandez et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 451, 2002, pp. 239–260).

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Low-Reynolds-number flows: Hele-Shaw flows Low-Reynolds-number flows: Low-Reynolds-number flows MHD and Electrohydrodynamics: Magnetic fluids

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 836 , 10 February 2018 , pp. 374 - 396
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The first and second authors contributed equally to this work.

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Experimental conditions: SR=5.6 Oe/s, H=100 Oe, EMG905 and h=1 mm

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