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Stability of the flow in a plane microchannel with one or two superhydrophobic walls
Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 013901 – Published 6 January, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.013901
Abstract
The modal and nonmodal linear stability of the flow in a microchannel with either one or both walls coated with a superhydrophobic material is studied. The topography of the bounding wall(s) has the shape of elongated microridges with arbitrary alignment with respect to the direction of the mean pressure gradient. The superhydrophobic walls are modeled using the Navier slip condition through a slip tensor, and the results depend parametrically on the slip length and orientation angle of the ridges. The stability analysis is carried out in the temporal framework; the modal analysis is performed by solving a generalized eigenvalue problem, and the nonmodal, optimal perturbation analysis is done with an adjoint optimization approach. We show theoretically and verify numerically that Squire's theorem does not apply in the present settings, despite the fact that Squire modes are found to be always damped. The most notable result is the appearance of a streamwise wall-vortex mode at very low Reynolds numbers when the ridges are sufficiently inclined with respect to the mean pressure gradient, in the case of a single superhydrophobic wall. When two walls are rendered water repellent, the exponential growth of the instability results from either a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional Orr-Sommerfeld mode, depending on the ridges' orientation and amplitude. Nonmodal results for either one or two superhydrophobic wall(s) display but a mild modification of the no-slip case.
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