Capillary wave scattering from a surfactant domain

DOI10.1063/1.868502MaRDI QIDQ4423949zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 22 March 2004

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

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

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

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.

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