Magnetorheological Fluid of High-Speed Unsteady Flow in a Narrow-Long Gap: An Unsteady Numerical Model and Analysis

Pengfei Zheng, Baolin Hou and Mingsong Zou
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Pengfei Zheng: School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Baolin Hou: School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Mingsong Zou: China Ship Scientific Research Center, Wuxi 214082, China

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 14, 1-25

Abstract: To investigate the unsteady flow field generated by magnetorheological (MR) fluid of a high-speed unsteady laminar boundary layer flow in a narrow-long gap of the magnetorheological absorber (MRA), a new unsteady numerical model is proposed. The gap has magnetic-field-activated and inactivated regions, with MR fluid flowing as bi-viscous (non-Newtonian) and Newtonian fluid. The unsteady flow field is described by the unsteady incompressible governing partial differential equation (PDE) and initial-boundary conditions with the moving boundary. The space-time solution domain is discretized using the finite difference method, and the governing PDE is transformed into implicit partial difference equations. The volume flow rate function is constructed to solve numerical solutions of pressure gradient and fluid velocity based on mass conservation, the continuity equation, and the bisection method. The accuracy of unsteady numerical model is validated by the experiment data. The results show that the fluid acceleration profiles along the gap’s height are non-uniform distribution. Further, the volume flow rate and excitation current has a significant impact on the dynamic distribution of fluid velocity profiles, and the moving boundary makes the flow field asymmetric about the central plane. Furthermore, as the transition stress increases, the thickness of the pre-yield region in the activated region increases. There is also a transition flow phenomenon in the activated region as the volume flow rate increases. Finally, the unsteady numerical model has good stability and convergence.

Keywords: fluid dynamics; unsteady flow field; laminar boundary layer; non-Newtonian fluid; partial differential equation; initial boundary value problem; finite difference method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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