Mathematical Problems in Engineering

1. Introduction

The governing equations for two-dimensional jet flows are expressed either as the system of two PDEs for the velocity components or by a single nonlinear third-order PDE for the stream function. In [1, 2] the similarity solution and in [3] the group-invariant solution were constructed for the nonlinear third-order PDE for the stream function for two-dimensional free jet with infinite fluid velocity at the orifice. The group-invariant solution for system of equations for the velocity components for the same problem was constructed by Naz et al. [4]. Glauert [5] derived the similarity solution for radial and two-dimensional wall jets having infinite fluid velocity at the orifice.

The general form of similarity solution for the flows having finite velocity at the orifice was suggested by Watson [6], and the similarity solutions for system of equations for velocity components for the radial and two-dimensional liquid jets were derived. The similarity solution for radial and two-dimensional wall jets having finite velocity at orifice was studied by Riley [7], and so our solution has some significance even near axis. The subject of this paper is to find the group-invariant solution for the nonlinear third-order PDE for stream function governing flow in two-dimensional (free, wall, liquid) jets having finite velocity at the orifice which is not considered yet.

The detailed outline of this paper is as follows: In Section 2 the group-invariant solution for two-dimensional free jet is derived. The symmetry associated with the conserved vector which is used to establish the conserved quantity for each jet generates the group-invariant solution for the nonlinear third-order PDE for the stream function. The group-invariant solution for two-dimensional wall and liquid jets is studied in Sections 3 and 4. In Section 5 the comparison between the results for two-dimensional jets, having finite and infinite fluid velocity at orifice, is constructed. The general form of group-invariant solution for two-dimensional free, wall, and liquid jets is given explicitly in Section 6. Finally the conclusions are summarized in Section 7.

2. Group-invariant Solution for Two-Dimensional Free Jet

The flow in two-dimensional free jet is governed by nonlinear third-order PDE for stream function for an incompressible fluid. The relation between stream function and velocity components is The Lie point symmetry generator of (2.1) derived by Mason [3] is

The boundary conditions and the conserved quantity for two-dimensional free jet in terms of stream function are (see [1–3]) The conserved vector gave the conserved quantity (2.6) for two-dimensional free jet (see [8]). The symmetry associated with the conserved vector which is used to establish the conserved quantity for each jet generates the group-invariant solution for nonlinear third-order PDE [4, 9].

The symmetries associated with a known conserved vector can be determined by [10] Equations (2.8) and (2.9) yield and thus for conserved vector (2.7), . The Lie point symmetry generator associated with conserved vector (2.7) is

Now, is a group-invariant solution of (2.1) if which yields where The conserved quantity (2.6) is independent of provided which yields . Since the stream function is determined up to an arbitrary constant, can be chosen to be zero. The insertion of (2.13) into (2.1) results in a nonlinear third-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) for :

Equation (2.16) can be transformed to with where is arbitrary constant, and prime denotes differentiation with respect to . The boundary conditions and conserved quantity (2.4)–(2.6), in terms of , take the following form:

The solution of (2.17) subject to (2.19) and condition is (see [2, 11, 12]) and value of in terms of is

The final form of group-invariant solution is is the symmetry that generated the group-invariant solution. Now is finite at and so our solution may have some significance even near the axis. By taking , the results [1–4] for infinite velocity at orifice can be rediscovered.

3. Group-invariant Solution for Two-Dimensional Wall Jet

The flow in two-dimensional wall jet is also governed by (2.1). The boundary conditions for the two-dimensional wall jet are [5] and the conserved quantity is The conserved vector gave the conserved quantity for two-dimensional wall jet [8], and the symmetry associated with this conserved vector is

The group-invariant solution of (2.1) for two-dimensional wall jet case is where The conserved quantity (3.3) is independent of provided which yields . The substitution of (3.6) into (2.1) gives rise to a nonlinear third-order ODE for : Define and Equation (3.9) transforms to Boundary conditions (3.1) and (3.2) and conserved quantity (3.3) take the following form: Glauert [5] selected a solution of (3.10) with , and after integrating (3.10) twice, the following equation was obtained: Equation (3.12) yields The conserved quantity gave the unknown constant as

Thus we finally obtain The results obtained here for agree with Riley [7], and can be determined from [13]. By taking , the results for infinite velocity at orifice obtained by Glauert [5] can be rediscovered.

4. Group-Invariant Solution for Two-Dimensional Liquid Jet

The governing equation for two-dimensional liquid jet in terms of stream function is (2.1). The boundary conditions and conserved quantity for two-dimensional liquid jet are [6] The conserved vector gave conserved quantity for two-dimensional liquid jet [8].

Equations (2.8) and (2.9) yield the following Lie point symmetry generator associated with the conserved vector (4.4): The group-invariant solution for two-dimensional liquid jet is where The conserved quantity is independent of only if which gives . The stream function contains an additive constant so we may choose without loss of generality.

The substitution of (4.6), with , , into (2.1) yields a nonlinear third-order ordinary differential equation for : Equation (4.8) takes the following form: where and . Boundary conditions (4.1) and (4.2) are where the free surface is chosen to be . The conserved quantity (4.3) becomes

Equation (4.9) yields (see [11, 12, 14]) The final form of solution of (4.9) in parametric form is (see [14]) where is the hypergeometric function of first kind. We can tabulate the values of for given values of parameter from (4.13), and conserved quantity yields the constant .

Thus finally we obtain Now is finite at . The results obtained here for agree with those concluded by Watson [6] by the similarity solution method, and the procedure to obtain is discussed there.

5. Comparison between Two-Dimensional Jets with Finite Velocity at Orifice and Infinite Velocity at Orifice

The comparison between two-dimensional jets with finite fluid velocity at orifice and infinite velocity at orifice is constructed in Table 1. Table 1 shows that by formally taking , the stream function , variable , and symmetry that generates group-invariant solution for infinite velocity case can be deduced from those of the finite velocity case.

Table 1: Comparison between two-dimensional jets with finite velocity at orifice and infinite velocity at orifice.

6. General Form of Group-invariant Solutions for Two-Dimensional Jets

The flow in two-dimensional free, wall, and liquid jets is governed by nonlinear third-order PDE (2.1). The symmetry generator (2.3) associated with the conserved vector that gives conserved quantity for jet flow gives the following conditions on constant: where We choose because the stream function is determined up to an arbitrary constant. The expression for group-invariant solutions for two-dimensional jet flows is where The condition where conserved quantity is independent of yields in each of free, wall, and liquid jets. Using (6.3)–(6.4), (2.1) yields Define the transformations where is a constant. The final form of a group-invariant solution is For two-dimensional free and wall jets, (6.5) yields and for two-dimensional liquid jet, we have The symmetry yielded the group-invariant solution.

7. Conclusions

The group-invariant solutions for two-dimensional free, wall, and liquid jets were derived for finite velocity at orifice. For two-dimensional free jet, a Lie point symmetry was associated with the conserved vector that generated the conserved quantity for two-dimensional free jet. This symmetry generated the group-invariant solution for the nonlinear third-order PDE for stream function subject to certain boundary conditions. The nonlinear third-order PDE was transformed to the nonlinear third-order ODE. Using certain transformations we deduced the same nonlinear third-order ODE as was obtained for two-dimensional free jet having infinite fluid velocity at orifice. The analogue analysis was done for the two-dimensional wall and liquid jets. A detailed comparison of results for finite and infinite velocity at orifice was constructed. The general form of group-invariant solution for the two-dimensional jets was derived.

Acknowledgment

R. Naz is thankful to The Lahore School of Economics for providing funding to complete this research work.