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The capillary flow in a circular tube under microgravity environment is investigated by the homotopy analysis method (HAM), and the approximate analytical solution in the form of series solution is obtained. Different from other analytical approximate methods, the HAM is totally independent of small physical parameters, and thus it is suitable for most nonlinear problems. The HAM provides us a great freedom to choose basis functions of solution series, so that a nonlinear problem can be approximated more effectively, and it adjusts and controls the convergence region and the convergence rate of the series solution through introducing auxiliary parameter and the auxiliary function. The HAM hews out a new approach to the analytical approximate solutions of capillary flow in a circular tube. Through the specific example and comparing homotopy approximate analytical solution with the numerical solution which is obtained by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method, the computed result indicate that this method has the good computational accuracy.
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Keywords:
- circular tubes /
- microgravity /
- capillary flow /
- homotopy analysis method
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[1] Lucas V R 1918 Kolloid-Z. 23 15
[2] Washburn E W 1921 Phys. Rev. 17 273
[3] Bell J M, Cameron F K 1906 J. Phys. Chem. 10 658
[4] Rideal E K 1922 Philos. Mag. 44 1152
[5] LeGrand E J, Rense W A 1945 J. Appl. Phys. 16 843
[6] Siegel R 1961 J. Appl. Mech. 83 165
[7] Petrash D A, Nelson T M, Otto E W 1963 NASA TN D-1582
[8] Jeje A A 1979 J. Colloid Interf. Sci. 69 420
[9] Ichikawa N, Satoda Y 1994 J. Colloid Interf. Sci. 162 350
[10] Joos P, Remoortere P, Bracke M{\it} 1990 J. Colloid Interf. Sci. 136 189
[11] Quéré D 1997 Europhys. Lett. 39 533
[12] Levine S, Reed P, Watson E J, Neale G 1976 In Colloid and Interface Science (New York: Academic) p403
[13] Stange M, Dreyer M E, Rath H J 2003 Phys. Fluids 15 2587
[14] Wang C X, Xu S H, Sun Z W, Hu W R 2009 AIAA J. 11 2642
[15] Liao S J 2006 Beyond Perturbation: Introduction to the Homotopy Analysis Method (Beijing: Science Press) p204 (in Chinese) [廖世俊2006 超越摄动–-同伦分析方法导论(北京:科学出版社) 第204页]
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[17] Liao S J 2003 J. Fluid Mech. 488 189
[18] Li Y Q, Zhu D W, Li F 2009 Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 45 37 (in Chinese) [李永强, 朱大巍, 李锋 2009 机械工程学报 45 37]
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[22] Li Y Q, Zhu D W 2011 Compos. Struct. 93 880
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[24] Yang P, Chen Y, Li Z B 2010 Acta Phys. Sin. 59 3668 (in Chinese) [杨沛, 陈勇, 李志斌 2010 物理学报 59 3668]
[25] Liao S J 2012 Homotopy Analysis Method for Nonlinear Differential Equations (Beijing: Higher Education Press) p285
[26] Dreyer M E 2007 Spring Tracts in Mordern Physics 221 51
[27] Sparrow E M, Lin S H, Lundgren T S 1964 Phys. Fluids 7 338
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