Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2011-04-03
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
13 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
In the present work fournontrivial stages of electrokinetic instability are identified by direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the full Nernst-Planck-Poisson-Stokes (NPPS) system: i) The stage of the influence of the initial conditions (milliseconds); ii) 1D self-similar evolution (milliseconds-seconds); iii) The primary instability of the self-similar solution (seconds); iv) The nonlinear stage with secondary instabilities. The self-similar character of evolution at intermediately large times is confirmed. Rubinstein and Zaltzman instability and noise-driven nonlinear evolution to over-limiting regimes in ion-exchange membranes are numerically simulated and compared with theoretical and experimental predictions. The primary instability which happens during this stage is found to arrest self-similar growth of the diffusion layer and specifies its characteristic length as was first experimentally predicted by Yossifon and Chang (PRL 101, 254501 (2008)). A novel principle for the characteristic wave number selection from the broadbanded initial noise is established.
Demekhin E. A.
Polyanskikh S. V.
Shelistov V. S.
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