scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1009582

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The onset of solutocapillary convection is considered for a thin liquid layer bounded by a rigid wall and a free surface open to an ambient gas. It is assumed that a surface active agent is present in the ambience. The surfactant can solve in the bulk liquid as well as it can adsorb on the free surface. A linear stability analysis using normal modes is carried out taking into account the deformability of the free surface. The critical Marangoni number is given analytically, and stability boundaries are presented for different cases of the governing parameters (adsorption, surface tension, diffusivities, mass transfer, and wave number). Special attention is given to the onset of oscillatory solutocapillary convection which cannot occur when the free surface is non-deformable. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0841.00021].











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