Capillary wave scattering from a surfactant domain

DOI10.1063/1.868502zbMATH Open1032.76517arXivcond-mat/9501056OpenAlexW3102282366MaRDI QIDQ4423949FDOQ4423949

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Publication date: 22 March 2004

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The study of capillary wave scattering by a circular region with different interfacial properties from the rest of an otherwise homogeneous interface is motivated by experiments on wave attenuation at a monolayer covered air-water interface where domains of one surface phase are dispersed in a second surface phase. Here the scattering function is calculated for an incident wave of frequency $omega$ (wavevector $k_0$) scattering from an isolated circular domain of radius $a$ with surface tension $sigm{a}_1$ which is imbedded in an otherwise infinite interface of surface tension $sigm{a}_0$. The underlying fluid is treated as irrotational and the three-dimensional flow problem coupling the heterogeneous surface to the underlying liquid is reduced to a set of dual integral equations, which are solved numerically. With this solution the scattering amplitudes and the total scattering cross sections are calculated as a function of the surface tension ratio $sigm{a}_0/sigm{a}_1$ and incident wavenumber $k_{0}a$. The analogous problem of a discontinuous change in bending rigidity is also considered and the solution to the complete viscous problem is outlined in an appendix. Experimental implications of these results are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9501056

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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• Multiple scattering of flexural waves by random configurations of inclusions in thin plates
• Capillary --- gravity wave transport over spatially random drift
• Hydrodynamics of monolayer domains at the air–water interface
• Capillary-wave scattering from an infinitesimal barrier and dissipation at dynamic contact lines

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