Marangoni instability in a viscoelastic binary film with cross-diffusive effect

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DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.941zbMATH Open1461.76052arXiv2003.07799OpenAlexW3011602555MaRDI QIDQ5145487FDOQ5145487

Rajkumar Sarma, Pranab Kumar Mondal

Publication date: 20 January 2021

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

Abstract: The viscoelastic fluids are usually the blends of a polymeric solute and a Newtonian solvent. In the presence of a temperature gradient, stratification of these solutes can take place via the Soret effect. Here, we investigate the classical Marangoni instability problem for a thin viscoelastic film considering this binary aspect of the fluid. The film, bounded above by a deformable free surface, is subjected to heating from below by a solid substrate. Linear stability analysis performed numerically for perturbations of finite wavelength (short-wave perturbations) reveals that both monotonic and oscillatory instabilities can emerge in this system. The interaction between the thermocapillary and solutocapillary forces in the presence of Soret diffusion is found to give rise to two different oscillatory instabilities, of which one mode was overlooked previously, even for the Newtonian binary mixtures. As a principal result of this work, we provide a complete picture of the susceptibility to different instability modes based on the model parameter values. Finally, an approximate model is developed under the framework of long-wave analysis, which can qualitatively depict the stability behaviour of the system without numerically solving the problem.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07799





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