Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Transport Processes

by Narayanan, Ranga; Schwabe, Dietrich

• ISBN13: 9783540405832
• ISBN10: 3540405836
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The present set of lectures and tutorial reviews deals with various topical aspects related to instabilities of interfacial processes and driven flows from both the theoretical and experimental point of views. New research has been spurred by demands for many applications in material sciences (melting, solidification, electro deposition), biomedical engineering and processing in microgravity environments. This book is intended as both a modern source of reference for researchers in the field as well as an introduction to postgraduate students and non-specialists from related areas.

Table of Contents

Large Wavelength Disturbances in Two-Fluid Benard-Maraugoni Convection and Their Control	p. 1
Convective Instabilities in Layered Systems	p. 21
Salt-Finger Instability Generated by Surface-Tension and Buoyancy-Driven Convection in a Stratified Fluid Layer	p. 45
Observations on Interfacial Convection in Multiple Layers without and with Evaporation	p. 59
General Approach to the Linear Stability of Thin Spreading Films	p. 79
Thermocapillary Convection in Cylindrical Geometries	p. 107
Surface Tension Driven Flow of Molten Silicon: Its Instability and the Effect of Oxygen	p. 131
Low-Prandtl-Number Marangoni Convection Driven by Localized Heating on the Free Surface: Results of Three-Dimensional Direct Simulations	p. 157
Thermocapillary Flows and Vorticity Singularity	p. 177
Unsteady Thermocapillary Flow and Free Surface Deformation in a Thin Liquid Layer	p. 201
The Influence of Static and Dynamic Free-Surface Deformations on the Three-Dimensional Thermocapillary Flow in Liquid Bridges	p. 213
The Choice of the Critical Mode of Hydrothermal Instability in Liquid Bridge	p. 241
Thermocapillary Droplet Migration on an Inclined Solid Surface	p. 263
Electrocapillary Flows	p. 291
Direct Simulation of Drop Fragmentation under Simple Shear	p. 305
Dynamics, Stability and Solidification of an Emulsion under the Action of thermocapillary Forces and Microgravity	p. 325
Non-equilibrium Phase Change	p. 355
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