Kinetic instabilities of three-layer thermocapillary creeping flows

Authors
Kliakhandler, IL Nepomnyashchy, AA
Citation
Il. Kliakhandler et Aa. Nepomnyashchy, Kinetic instabilities of three-layer thermocapillary creeping flows, PHYS FLUIDS, 11(8), 1999, pp. 2139-2142
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
ISSN journal
10706631 → ACNP
Volume
11
Issue
8
Year of publication
1999
Pages
2139 - 2142
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-6631(199908)11:8<2139:KIOTTC>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
It is shown that plane viscosity stratified system under longitudinal tempe rature gradient may exhibit long-wavelength instabilities of a purely kinet ic nature which persist at arbitrary small Reynolds number. The first insta bility is so-called alpha effect, and the second one is a new surface-tensi on-induced instability. The weakly nonlinear equations for the evolving int erfaces are derived and simulated. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. CS 1070-6631(99)03908-2].