Directional interfacial motion of liquids: Fundamentals, evaluations, and manipulation strategies

Q Dai, W Huang, X Wang, MM Khonsari - Tribology International, 2021 - Elsevier
The Marangoni effect—often invoked to describe the so-called “tears of wine”—is in essence
the mass transfer along an interface between two fluids due to a gradient of the surface …

On the thermocapillary migration between parallel plates

Q Dai, S Chen, W Huang, X Wang, S Hardt - International Journal of Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, the thermocapillary migration of liquid bridges and air bubbles between parallel
plates is studied. The factors influencing the thermocapillary migration are discussed …

Numerical simulation of vapor configuration and bubbles coalescence in cryogenic propellant tank under microgravity

P Yang, X Wang, Y Liu, C Yan, X Wang - Microgravity Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method was used to numerically study the configuration
characteristics of the vapor region in the cryogenic propellant tank under microgravity in this …

Numerical simulation of superheated vapor bubble rising in stagnant liquid

N Samkhaniani, MR Ansari - Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Springer
In present study, the rising of superheated vapor bubble in saturated liquid is simulated
using volume of fluid method in OpenFOAM cfd package. The surface tension between …

Thermocapillary migration of an isolated droplet and interaction of two droplets in zero gravity

Y Alhendal, A Turan, A Kalendar - Acta Astronautica, 2016 - Elsevier
Fluid transfer within a stagnant liquid presents a significant challenge in zero-gravity
conditions due to the lack of buoyancy effects. This challenge can be overcome by the …

Passage of a bubble through the interface between a shear-thinning heavier liquid and a Newtonian lighter liquid

KK Singh, HJ Bart - Chemical Engineering Communications, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Numerical simulations are carried out to study the phenomenon of passage of a bubble
through the interface between two initially quiescent liquids. The heavier liquid is a viscous …

Effect of wall proximity on the lateral thermocapillary migration of droplet rising in a quiescent liquid

SS Kalichetty, T Sundararajan, A Pattamatta - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A numerical study is performed to observe the effect of lateral wall proximity on the
thermocapillary migration of a droplet. Three-dimensional simulations of the droplet with …

Thermocapillary bubble migration at high Reynolds and Marangoni numbers: 3D numerical study

Y Alhendal, A Turan, A Kalendar, H Abou-Ziyan… - … Science and Technology, 2018 - Springer
Thermocapillary motion of initially spherical bubbles due to the constant temperature
gradient in a liquid bounded medium is simulated numerically for low, intermediate, high …

Impact of heat flow from the cylinder sidewalls on thermocapillary droplet flow in a vibrating fluid: 3D study

Y Alhendal, S Touzani - Heat and Mass Transfer, 2024 - Springer
The thermocapillary motion of droplet in a vibrating fluid in a cylinder heated from the top
and sides and cooled from the bottom is studied, using a three-dimensional computational …

Thermocapillary patterning of non-Newtonian thin films

A Mohammadtabar, H Nazaripoor, A Riad… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Deformation of thin viscous liquid films exposed to a transverse thermal gradient results in
Bénard–Marangoni instability, which would lead to the formation of micro-and nano-sized …