Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Transport Processes

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