Surface tension-and buoyancy-driven flows across horizontally propagating chemical fronts

R Tiani, A De Wit, L Rongy - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemical reactions can interplay with hydrodynamic flows to generate various complex
phenomena. Because of their relevance in many research areas, chemically-induced …

Buoyancy-induced convection driven by frontal polymerization

Y Gao, JE Paul, M Chen, L Hong, LP Chamorro… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
In this Letter, we study the interaction between a self-sustaining exothermic reaction front
propagating in a direction perpendicular to that of gravity and the buoyancy-driven …

Experimental evidence for three universality classes for reaction fronts in disordered flows

S Atis, AK Dubey, D Salin, L Talon, P Le Doussal… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Self-sustained reaction fronts in a disordered medium subject to an external flow display self-
affine roughening, pinning, and depinning transitions. We measure spatial and temporal …

Convective dynamics of traveling autocatalytic fronts in a modulated gravity field

D Horváth, MA Budroni, P Bába, L Rongy… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
When traveling in thin solution layers, autocatalytic chemical fronts may be deformed and
accelerated by convective currents that develop because of density and surface tension …

Autocatalytic reaction fronts inside a porous medium of glass spheres

S Atis, S Saha, H Auradou, D Salin, L Talon - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We analyze experimentally chemical wave propagation in the disordered flow field of a
porous medium. The reaction fronts travel at a constant velocity that drastically depends on …

Interaction of pure Marangoni convection with a propagating reactive interface under microgravity

P Bába, L Rongy, A De Wit, MJB Hauser, Á Tóth… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
A reactive interface in the form of an autocatalytic reaction front propagating in a bulk phase
can generate a dynamic contact line upon reaching the free surface when a surface tension …

Dynamics due to combined buoyancy-and Marangoni-driven convective flows around autocatalytic fronts

MA Budroni, L Rongy, A De Wit - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A reaction–diffusion–convection (RDC) model is introduced to analyze convective dynamics
around horizontally traveling fronts due to combined buoyancy-and surface tension-driven …

Marangoni-driven convection around exothermic autocatalytic chemical fronts in free-surface solution layers

L Rongy, P Assemat, A De Wit - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Gradients of concentration and temperature across exothermic chemical fronts propagating
in free-surface solution layers can initiate Marangoni-driven convection. We investigate here …

A two-layer model for buoyant displacement flows in a channel with wall slip

SM Taghavi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
We study theoretically buoyant displacement flows of two generalized Newtonian fluids in a
two-dimensional (2-D) channel with wall slip. We assume that a pseudo-interface separates …

Accurate measurement of curvilinear shapes by virtual image correlation

B Semin, H Auradou, MLM François - The European Physical …, 2011 - cambridge.org
The proposed method allows the detection and the measurement, in the sense of metrology,
of smooth elongated curvilinear shapes. Such measurements are required in many fields of …