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.