Unrelaxed tensile stress impacts on the instability of viscoelastic sheets with the gas velocity oscillation

Abstract

A temporal instability analysis of a viscoelastic liquid sheet with unrelaxed tensile stresses in the oscillation gaseous flow field has been studied with the Floquet method in the present research. Effects of the oscillated amplitude and frequency of incoming gaseous flow on the instability features in the different instability regions are analyzed systematically. Results reveal that the unrelaxed tensile stress has a positive effect on stabilizing the liquid sheet, while the higher oscillation amplitude would promote the sheet breakup. Besides, it is indicated that when the stress tensor would be controlled by the viscoelastic effects, elastic impacts would suppress the breakup, while it shows an opposite impact when the stress tensor is dominated by the tensile stress. The existence of parametric instability regions is influenced by the oscillated and elastic parameters as well.