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Wrinkling instability of an inhomogeneously stretched viscous sheet

Siddarth Srinivasan and Zhiyan Wei

L. Mahadevan*

  • John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

  • John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Departments of Physics, and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

  • *Corresponding author; lmahadev@g.harvard.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 074103 – Published 27 July, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.074103

Abstract

Motivated by the redrawing of hot glass into thin sheets, we investigate the shape and stability of a thin viscous sheet that is inhomogeneously stretched in an imposed nonuniform temperature field. We first determine the associated base flow by solving the long-time-scale stretching flow of a flat sheet as a function of two dimensionless parameters: the normalized stretching velocity α and a dimensionless width of the heating zone β. This allows us to determine the conditions for the onset of an out-of-plane wrinkling instability stated in terms of an eigenvalue problem for a linear partial differential equation governing the displacement of the midsurface of the sheet. We show that the sheet can become unstable in two regions that are upstream and downstream of the heating zone where the minimum in-plane stress is negative. This yields the shape and growth rates of the most unstable buckling mode in both regions for various values of the stretching velocity and heating zone width. A transition from stationary to oscillatory unstable modes is found in the upstream region with increasing β, while the downstream region is always stationary. We show that the wrinkling instability can be entirely suppressed when the surface tension is large enough relative to the magnitude of the in-plane stress. Finally, we present an operating diagram that indicates regions of the parameter space that result in a required outlet sheet thickness upon stretching while simultaneously minimizing or suppressing the out-of-plane buckling, a result that is relevant for the glass redraw method used to create ultrathin glass sheets.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 074103– Published 27 July, 2017
  • Received 26 March 2017

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