Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Transport Processes

✍ Scribed by R. E. Kelly (auth.), Ranga Narayanan, Dietrich Schwabe (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 379
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 628
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 the many demands for 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

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Large Wavelength Disturbances in Two-Fluid Bénard—Marangoni Convection and Their Control....Pages 1-20
Convective Instabilities in Layered Systems....Pages 21-44
Salt-Finger Instability Generated by Surface-Tension and Buoyancy-Driven Convection in a Stratified Fluid Layer....Pages 45-58
Observations on Interfacial Convection in Multiple Layers without and with Evaporation....Pages 59-77
A General Approach to the Linear Stability of Thin Spreading Films....Pages 79-106
Thermocapillary Convection in Cylindrical Geometries....Pages 107-129
Surface Tension Driven Flow of Molten Silicon: Its Instability and the Effect of Oxygen....Pages 131-155
Low-Prandtl-Number Marangoni Convection Driven by Localized Heating on the Free Surface: Results of Three-Dimensional Direct Simulations....Pages 157-175
Thermocapillary Flows and Vorticity Singularity....Pages 177-200
Unsteady Thermocapillary Flow and Free Surface Deformation in a Thin Liquid Layer....Pages 201-212
The Influence of Static and Dynamic Free-Surface Deformations on the Three-Dimensional Thermocapillary Flow in Liquid Bridges....Pages 213-239
The Choice of the Critical Mode of Hydrothermal Instability in Liquid Bridge....Pages 241-262
Thermocapillary Droplet Migration on an Inclined Solid Surface....Pages 263-289
Electrocapillary Flows....Pages 291-304
Direct Simulation of Drop Fragmentation under Simple Shear....Pages 305-323
Dynamics, Stability and Solidification of an Emulsion under the Action of Thermocapillary Forces and Microgravity....Pages 325-354
Non-equilibrium Phase Change....Pages 355-367
Back Matter....Pages 369-369

✦ Subjects

Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films;Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics;Engineering Fluid Dynamics;Biomedical Engineering