Oscillation of viscous drops with smoothed particle hydrodynamics.

We investigate the nonlinear oscillations of heat-conductive, viscous, liquid drops in vacuum with zero gravity, using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The liquid drops are modeled as a van der Waals fluid in two dimensions so that the models apply to flat, disklike drops. Attention is focused on small- to large-amplitude oscillations of drops that are released from a static elliptic shape. We find that for small-amplitude motions the combined dissipative effects of finite viscosity and heat conduction induce rapid decay of the oscillations after a few periods, while for large-amplitude motions wave damping is governed by the action of both viscous dissipation and surface tension forces. The transition from periodic to aperiodic decay at Re approximately 1 as well as the quadratic decrease of the frequency with the initial aspect ratio at large Re are reproduced in good agreement with previous theoretical predictions and experimental results.

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