Steady thermocapillary flows and their stability
Abstract
Thermocapillarity can drive steady flows in float-zone configurations. These flows can become unstable and exhibit time-periodic oscillations. In order to obtain insight into such phenomena, studies are made of a simplified system consisting of liquid in a two-dimensional slot. Steady flows and their instabilities are examined.
- Publication:
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Materials Processing in the Reduced Gravity Environment of Space
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982mprg.proc..173S
- Keywords:
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- Capillary Flow;
- Flow Stability;
- Liquid Flow;
- Steady Flow;
- Containerless Melts;
- Contamination;
- Microgravity Applications;
- Shear Flow;
- Slots;
- Space Commercialization;
- Space Processing;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer