The effect of phase change on stability of convective flow in a layer of volatile liquid driven by a horizontal temperature gradient

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.918zbMATH Open1419.76218arXiv1704.00808OpenAlexW2605320611MaRDI QIDQ5226331FDOQ5226331

Roman O. Grigoriev, Tongran Qin

Publication date: 31 July 2019

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

Abstract: Buoyancy-thermocapillary convection in a layer of volatile liquid driven by a horizontal temperature gradient arises in a variety of situations. Recent studies have shown that the composition of the gas phase, which is typically a mixture of vapour and air, has a noticeable effect on the critical Marangoni number describing the onset of convection as well as on the observed convection pattern. Specifically, as the total pressure or, equivalently, the average concentration of air is decreased, the threshold of the instability leading to the emergence of convective rolls is found to increase rather significantly. We present a linear stability analysis of the problem which shows that this trend can be readily understood by considering the transport of heat and vapour through the gas phase. In particular, we show that transport in the gas phase has a noticeable effect even at atmospheric conditions, when phase change is greatly suppressed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00808

zbMATH Keywords

Marangoni convectionabsolute/convective instabilitycondensation/evaporation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forced convection (76R05) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)

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