Surface tension-driven convection patterns in two liquid layers

Two superposed liquid layers display a variety of convective phenomena that are inaccessible in the traditional system where the upper layer is a gas. We consider several pairs of immiscible liquids. Once the liquids have been selected, the applied temperature difference and the depths of the layers are the only independent control parameters. Using a perfluorinated hydrocarbon and silicone oil system, we have made the first experimental observation of convection with the top plate hotter than the bottom plate. Since the system is stably stratified, this convective flow is solely due to thermocapillary forces. We also have found oscillatory convection at onset in an acetonitrile and n-hexane system heated from below. The experimental observations are in reasonable agreement with linear stability analyses.

• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

• Publication date

  1999-11-16

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics

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  DOI 10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00100-7arXiv patt-sol/9911004
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