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Steady thermocapillary flows in two-dimensional slots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Asok K. Sen
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, The Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201, U.S.A. Present address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46205, U.S.A.
Stephen H. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, The Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201, U.S.A.

Abstract

Liquid in a slot flows owing to a temperature gradient applied along its free surface. The thermal variation of surface tension induces a steady viscous flow directed on the surface from hot to cold, and recirculating below. For small aspect ratios A, giving flow in thin, two-dimensional slots, an asymptotic theory valid for A → 0 is used to obtain the fluid and thermal fields as well as the interfacial shapes. Solutions are obtained for both fixed lines and fixed angles at the contact between the interface and the solid side walls.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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