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Instabilities of dynamic thermocapillary liquid layers. Part 1. Convective instabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Marc K. Smith  and
Stephen H. Davis
Marc K. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, The Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201 Present address: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.
Stephen H. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, The Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201
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Abstract

A planar liquid layer is bounded below by a rigid plate and above by an interface with a passive gas. A steady shear flow is set up by imposing a temperature gradient along the layer and driving the motion by thermocapillarity. This dynamic state is susceptible to two types of thermal-convective instabilities: (i) stationary longitudinal rolls, which involve the classical Marangoni instability studied by Pearson; and (ii) unsteady hydrothermal waves, which involve a new mechanism of instability deriving its energy from the horizontal temperature gradients. Thermal stability characteristics for liquid layers with and without return-flow profiles are presented as functions of the Prandtl number of the liquid and the Biot number of the interface. Comparisons are made with available experimental observations.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 132 , July 1983 , pp. 119 - 144
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© 1983 Cambridge University Press

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