Dynamics and stability of surface waves with bulk-soluble surfactants

DOI10.1007/S10440-018-0203-0zbMATH Open1420.35201arXiv1702.02513OpenAlexW2587695695WikidataQ129488345 ScholiaQ129488345MaRDI QIDQ2422331FDOQ2422331

Lei Wu, Ian Tice

Publication date: 19 June 2019

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the dynamics of a layer of incompressible viscous fluid bounded below by a rigid boundary and above by a free boundary, in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. We assume that a mass of surfactant is present both at the free surface and in the bulk of fluid, and that conversion from one species to the other is possible. The surfactants couple to the fluid dynamics through the coefficient of surface tension, which depends on the the surface density of surfactants. Gradients in this concentration give rise to Marangoni stress on the free surface. In turn, the fluids advect the surfactants and distort their concentration through geometric distortions of the free surface. We model the surfactants in a way that allows absorption and desorption of surfactant between the surface and bulk. We prove that small perturbations of the equilibrium solutions give rise to global-in-time solutions that decay to equilibrium at an exponential rate. This establishes the asymptotic stability of the equilibrium solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02513

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zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationssurfactantsinterfacial stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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