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Stability of thermocapillary convection and regimes of a fluid flow acted upon by a standing surface wave

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It has been established that, in the case where a standing surface wave acts on a thermocapillary-convection flow in a cylindrical volume, there arises an oscillating-convection zone between the laminar and turbulent regimes of flow. It is shown that the boundary between these regimes is determined by the amplitude δ and the number of periods n of the standing wave and is practically independent of the Marangoni number and the oscillation frequency of this wave. At n = 2, in the range 0.004 < δ < 0.006, the parameters of the fluid cease to oscillate. The mechanisms by which the thermocapillary convection in closed volumes loses its stability are discussed.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 108–115, September–October, 2007.

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Feonychev, A.I. Stability of thermocapillary convection and regimes of a fluid flow acted upon by a standing surface wave. J Eng Phys Thermophy 80, 961–969 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-007-0128-3

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