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Instability of thermocapillary–buoyancy convection in shallow layers. Part 2. Suppression of hydrothermal waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 1998

S. BENZ
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Gießen, Germany
P. HINTZ
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Gießen, Germany
R. J. RILEY
Affiliation:
Cabot Corporation, Research and Development, Pampa, TX 79066, USA
G. P. NEITZEL
Affiliation:
The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405, USA

Abstract

Hydrothermal-wave instabilities in thermocapillary convection are known to produce undesirable effects when they occur during the float-zone crystal-growth process, and perhaps in other situations. Suppression of the hydrothermal-wave instability produced in the model system of Part 1 (Riley & Neitzel 1998) is demonstrated through the sensing of free-surface temperature perturbations and the periodic addition of heat at the free surface along lines parallel to the crests of the hydrothermal waves.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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