Thermocapillary and centrifugal-buoyancy-driven motion in a rapidly rotating liquid cylinder

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000137zbMath0593.76108MaRDI QIDQ3724018

Marc K. Smith

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

buoyancy-driven convectioninterface shapethermocapillary motionfirst-order correctionscentrifugal buoyancyinterior flowlinear boundary-layer theorythermocapillary flow fieldthin layer at the liquid-gas interfaceuniformly rotating liquid cylinder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Forced convection (76R05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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• The axisymmetric flow in a rotating annulus due to a horizontally applied temperature gradient
• On the steady motions produced by a stable stratification in a rapidly rotating fluid
• Centrifugally driven thermal convection in a rotating cylinder