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    Determination of Non-Equilibrium Surface Tension Gradients in Marangoni Thermal Flows: Application to Aqueous Solutions of Fatty Alcohols

    G.Pétré1, K.Tshinyama, A. Azouni2, S. Van Vaerenbergh1
    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 1-10, 2008, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2008.004.001
    Abstract This study illustrates a relevant and practical method to determine the effective surface tension gradient in a layer subjected to a lateral temperature difference. In general, this can be hardly performed in situ without perturbing the flow. For this reason we rely on an indirect determination approach. A simple model is developed that relates the surface tension gradient to other quantities that can be measured without introducing significant disturbances in the system. Measurements of these quantities are performed in a set-up where the flow corresponds with a good approximation to a one-dimensional model. A previously used set-up has been upgraded… More >

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    Three-dimensional Simulations of Water-Mercury Anticonvection

    Thomas Boeck1, Alexander Nepomnyashchy2,3, Ilya Simanovskii2
    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 11-20, 2008, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2008.004.011
    Abstract Anticonvection in a two-layer system of mercury and water is studied using three-dimensional direct numerical simulations with a Fourier-Chebyshev spectral method. The two fluid layers have equal thicknesses and are uniformly heated from above. Interface deformations and surface tension gradients are neglected. The quiescent state is replaced by steady hexagons upon increasing the heating from above. We investigate the destabilization of this primary convective pattern in a small and in a large computational domain upon increasing the temperature difference across the two fluid layers. For the large domain the convection cells become disordered at about twice the critical temperature difference… More >

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    Precursor Film Length Ahead Droplet Traveling on Solid Substrate

    I. Ueno1, T. Konisho2, T. Kawase3, T. Watanabe4
    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 21-26, 2008, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2008.004.021
    Abstract The present authors carried out an experimental study with a special interest upon the dynamics of the fluid in the vicinity of the boundary line of three phases; solid-liquid-gas interface, which is so-called `contact line.' The moving droplet on the solid substrate is accompanied with the movement of the boundary line of three phases; solid-liquid-gas interface, which is so-called macroscopic 'contact line.' Existing studies have indicated there is a thin liquid film known as 'precursor film' ahead the contact line of the droplet. In the present study the precursor film was detected by applying conventional ellipsometer, and its existing length… More >

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    A Deterministic Mechanism for Side-branching in Dendritic Growth

    Shuwang Li1, Xiangrong Li1, John Lowengrub1,2, Martin Glicksman3
    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 27-42, 2008, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2008.004.027
    Abstract In this paper, we suggest a deterministic mechanism for the generation and development of side-branches in dendritic growth. The present authors investigated recently [Glicksman, Lowengrub, and Li (2006)] the existence of such a deterministic branching mechanism induced through the Gibbs-Thomson-Herring (GTH [Herring (1951)]) anisotropic capillary boundary condition. In this paper, we focus our study on an anisotropic kinetic boundary condition. We develop and apply accurate boundary integral methods in 2D and 3D, in which a time and space rescaling scheme is implemented, that are capable of separating the dynamics of growth from those of morphology change. Numerical results reveal that… More >

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    Subcritical and Oscillatory Dynamic Surface Deformations in Non-Cylindrical Liquid Bridges

    V. Shevtsova1,2, A. Mialdun1, C. Ferrera1,4, M. Ermakov3,4, J. M. Montanero4
    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 43-54, 2008, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2008.004.043
    Abstract Dynamic free surface deformations induced by buoyant and thermocapillary convection in liquid bridges of 5cSt silicone oil are studied experimentally and numerically. The experiments are performed in ground conditions and static deformation is unavoidable. Convective motion starts in the liquid bridge as soon as ΔT ≠ 0 and initially leads to a stationary dynamic deformation of the free surface. Oscillatory motion starts at a critical value of ΔT and causes oscillations of the interface. The final supercritical shape of the free surface is a result of the static shape with superimposed subcritical stationary and oscillatory dynamic deformations. All these contributions… More >

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    On 'Tears of Wine': Flow due to Solutocapillary Effect Formed on Inclined Wall

    I. Ueno1, T. Kishida2
    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 55-60, 2008, DOI:10.3970/fdmp.2008.004.055
    Abstract Phenomenon known as `tears of wine' arises on an inclined plate partially submerged in a bulk of alcohol-water mixture. This phenomenon apparently exhibits a periodic ordered structure, the flow field itself evolves quite complex feature; especially in the vicinity of the tear. In the present study, the authors paid their special attention to this unique, complex flow field of O(1 mm) with deformable surface. The flow pattern and the spatio-temporal particle behavior in the tear were reconstructed by applying three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry (3-D PTV). More >

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