Interfacial phenomena and convection /
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
Chapman and Hall/CRC,
©2002.
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| Series: | Chapman & Hall/CRC monographs and surveys in pure and applied mathematics ;
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Table of Contents:
- The interface as a physical system
- Interfacial tension
- Hydrodynamic properties of the interface
- Mathematical formulation
- Heat transfer in a system with an interface
- Mass transfer in a system with an interface
- Interfacial flows
- Flows generated by a longitudinal surface tension gradient
- Return flow
- Unidirectional flow
- Multilayer flows
- Nonisothermal flows in thin liquid layers
- Nonparallel flows
- Two-dimensional flows
- Axisymmetric flows
- Thermocapillary and solutocapillary migration of drops (and bubbles) and their spreading due to the Marangoni effect
- Hydrodynamic drag on a solid sphere, a drop, or a bubble
- Passive drops and the Marangoni effect
- Active drops and instability; from drag to self-propulsion
- Active versus passive drops and the Marangoni effect
- Nonlinear equations and linear stability results
- A few striking features of the nonlinear stability of spontaneous drop self-propulsion with the Marangoni effect
- Spreading of surfactant drops and films and the Marangoni effect
- Static phenomena. Spreading of drops
- Liquid-liquid spreading of partially miscible liquids and the Marangoni effect
- Spreading of a drop of practically insoluble surfactant due to Marangoni stresses
- Stationary interfacial patterns in liquid layers
- Stability of a thin horizontal layer heated from below (Benard-Marangoni convection)
- Heuristic arguments
- Linear stability analysis
- Experiments
- Nonlinear evolution equation for a horizontal layer heated from below.