Thermal convection of two immiscible fluids in a 3D channel with a velocity field of a special type (Q6563548)

The authors study a three-dimensional steady flow of two immiscible fluids in a layer bounded by solid parallel walls. The problem of stationary three-dimensional two-layer motion with a special velocity field is reduced to a conjugate problem for a system of one-dimensional integro-differential equations. The resulting problem is inverse with respect to pressure gradients along horizontal coordinates. The solution to the linear problem (in the case of small Marangoni numbers) is found in the analytical form. The nonlinear problem is solved using the tau method. As the Marangoni number decreases, the found solution tends toward solution of the creeping-flow problem. The effect of dimensionless physical and geometric parameters on the structure of flows in layers is analyzed.