On the problem of the stability of convective two-phase medium flows under high-frequency vibration

Abstract

The principles and methods of constructing a model of vibrational convection in a medium consisting of a liquid (gas) and a solid admixture are discussed. A closed system of averaged equations is first obtained. The system admits passage to the limits of the equations of both vibrational convection in a homogeneous fluid and convection in a dusty medium in the static case. As a measure of the difference with respect to the homogeneous fluid, in addition to the sedimentation parameter, which also manifests itself in the absence of vibrational accelerations, it is possible to take the inhomogeneity parameter introduced in this study and responsible for the pulsatory transport of the average fields. The problem of the stability of plane parallel flow in a vertical layer of a two-phase medium under horizontal longitudinal vibration with respect to infinitesimal perturbations is considered. It is shown that the introduction of particles into the flow leads to qualitatively novel effects which cannot be predicted within the framework of the homogeneous fluid model.