Marangoni Convection in a Relatively Hotter or Cooler Liquid Layer

A. K. Gupta1, R. G. Shandil2
1Himachal Pradesh University Centre for Evening Studies, Shimla, India
2Department of Mathematics, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India

Tóm tắt

The onset of cellular convection induced by surface tension gradients on a thin layer of liquid as developed by Pearson (J Fluid Mech 4: 489–500, 1958[6]) is examined in the extended framework of Banerjee et al. (J Math Phys Sci 17: 603–629, 1983[11]). Numerical results are obtained for both the thermally conducting and insulating cases of the lower boundary surface. It is found that irrespective of the nature (conducting or insulating) of the lower boundary surface the critical Marangoni number does significantly depend upon whether the liquid layer is relatively hotter or cooler.

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