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The topic of this section is historically important since it is now believed that in Bénard’s (1900) original experiments on the convection problem, which now bears his name, the driving mechanism was one of surface tension variation due to temperature. We point out that convective instability seems to have been first described by James Thomson (1882), the elder brother of Lord Kelvin: a very clear account of this is given in Drazin & Reid (1981), p. 32.
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Straughan, B. (1992). Surface Tension Driven Convection. In: The Energy Method, Stability, and Nonlinear Convection. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 91. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2194-2_8
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