Research Catalog

Title

Interfacial phenomena and convection / Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy, Manuel G. Velarde, Pierre Colinet.

Author

Nepomnyashchy, A. A. (Aleksandr Abovich)

Publication

Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

• Velarde, Manuel G. (Manuel García)
• Colinet, P. (Pierre)

Description

xvii, 365 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Chapman & Hall/CRC monographs and surveys in pure and applied mathematics ; 124

Uniform Title

Chapman & Hall/CRC monographs and surveys in pure and applied mathematics ; 124.

Subjects

• Surface tension
• Marangoni effect
• Heat > Convection
• Interfaces (Physical sciences)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-361) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction. 1.1. The interfaces as a physical system. 1.2. Mathematical formulation -- 2. Interfacial flows. 2.1. Flows generated by a longitudinal surface tension gradient. 2.2. Nonisothermal flows in thin liquid layers. 2.3. Nonparallel flows -- 3. Thermocapillary and solutocapillary migration of drops (and bubbles) and their spreading due to the Marangoni effect. 3.1. Hydrodynamic drag on a solid sphere, a drop, or a bubble. 3.2. Passive drops and the Marangoni effect. 3.3. Active drops and instability; from drag to self-propulsion. 3.4. Spreading of surfactant drops and films and the Marangoni effect -- 4. Stationary interfacial patterns in liquid layers. 4.1. Stability of a thin horizontal layer heated from below (Benard-Marangoni convection). 4.2. Nonlinear evolution equation for a horizontal layer heated from below. 4.3. Selection of convective patterns near the instability threshold. 4.4. Modulations and instabilities of hexagonal patterns.
• 4.5. Strongly nonlinear patterns. 4.6. Extensions of Knobloch's equation and related model equations -- 5. Interfacial oscillations and waves. 5.1. Classification of oscillatory instabilities. 5.2. Transverse and longitudinal oscillatory instabilities. 5.3. Oscillatory instabilities in the mixed Rayleigh-Benard-Marangoni convection. 5.4. Longitudinal instability in two-layer systems. 5.5. Oscillatory instability in the presence of both thermal gradient and surfactant transport. 5.6. Oscillations and waves in multilayer systems. 5.7. Experiments on surface tension gradient-driven waves. 5.8. Hydrochemical surface waves due to the Marangoni effect -- 6. Instabilities of parallel flows and film flows. 6.1. Flows generated by a longitudinal surface tension gradient. 6.2. Film flows. 6.3. Flows in two-layer systems -- 7. Outlook. 7.1. Interfacial turbulence and dissipative waves. 7.2. Control of instabilities.
• 7.3. Interfacial phenomena in the presence of phase transitions and chemical reactions, multiphase flows, etc. 7.4. "Exotic" patterns and defects.

ISBN

1584882565

LCCN

2001047301

OCLC

• ocm47790810
• SCSB-4235371

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries