Browsing by Author "Hewitt, Duncan"

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  • Dewatering of fibre suspensions by pressure filtration 

    Hewitt, Duncan; Paterson, DT; Balmforth, NJ; Martinez, DM (AIP PublishingPhysics of Fluids, 2016-06-09)
    A theoretical and experimental study of dewatering of fibre suspensions by uniaxial compression is presented. Solutions of a one-dimensional model are discussed and asymptotic limits of fast and slow compression are explored. ...

  • Flow-induced compaction of a deformable porous medium 

    Hewitt, Duncan; Nijjer, Japinder S; Worster, Michael Grae; Neufeld, Jerome Anthony (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review E, 2016-02-24)
    Fluid flowing through a deformable porous medium imparts viscous drag on the solid matrix, causing it to deform. This effect is investigated theoretically and experimentally in a one-dimensional configuration. The experiments ...

  • Obstructed and channelized viscoplastic flow in a Hele-Shaw cell 

    Hewitt, Duncan; Daneshi, M; Balmforth, NJ; Martinez, DM (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016-02-02)
    A theoretical study is presented of the flow of viscoplastic fluid through a Hele-Shaw cell that contains various kinds of obstructions. Circular and elliptical blockages of the cell are considered together with stepwise ...

  • Stability of three-dimensional columnar convection in a porous medium 

    Hewitt, Duncan; Lister, John Ronald (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-10-25)
    The stability of steady convective exchange flow with a rectangular planform in an unbounded three-dimensional porous medium is explored. The base flow comprises a balance between vertical advection with amplitude A in ...

  • Taylor's swimming sheet in a yield-stress fluid 

    Hewitt, Duncan; Balmforth, NJ (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-10-10)
    A yield stress is added to Taylor’s (1951, Proc. Royal Soc. A, 209, 447-461) model of a two-dimensional flexible sheet swimming through a viscous fluid. Both transverse waves along the sheet, as in Taylor’s original model, ...

  • Two–dimensional viscoplastic dambreaks 

    Liu, Y; Balmforth, NJ; Hormozi, S; Hewitt, Duncan (Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2016-12-01)
    We report the results of computations for two–dimensional dambreaks of viscoplastic fluid, focusing on the phenomenology of the collapse, the mode of initial failure, and the final shape of the slump. The volume-of-fluid ...

  • Viscoplastic boundary layers 

    Balmforth, NJ; Craster, RV; Hewitt, Duncan; Hormozi, S; Maleki, A (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-02-25)
    In the limit of a large yield stress, or equivalently at the initiation of motion, viscoplastic flows can develop narrow boundary layers that provide either surfaces of failure between rigid plugs, the lubrication between ...