by Rudolph V. Birikh et al

Despite factoring in countless natural, biological, and industrial processes, fixed attention on the singular attributes and behavior of fluids near or at interfaces has been neglected in the surface science literature.

Liquid Interfacial Systems authoritatively assembles and analyzes concepts and findings as an inclusive summation of fluid–fluid interfacial phenomena.

Covers excitation, stabilization, and suppression of instability at liquid interfaces.

Liquid Interfacial Systems explains

• definitions, scales, governing equations, and boundary conditions used in liquid interfacial system research
• forms of stability triggered by Marangoni effect, from steady patterned convection to gravity and transverse capillary and longitudinal waves
• thermocapillary instability of various combinations of layer systems and interfaces
• convective instability and thermocapillary convection of layers and interfaces
• thermocapillary bubble and drop migration
• Marangoni-driven deformation and rupture of liquid layers
• the role of vibration in enhancing or suppressing interfacial instability seen through from heuristic argument to analytical/numerical results

Contents

1. Introduction
2. A First Discussion of Instability Phenomena Driven by the Marangoni Effect
3. Excitation of Isothermal Liquid Surface Instability by Variable Force Fields
4. Stabilizing Influence of High Frequency Vibrations on the Possible Instability of an
5. Isothermal Liquid Surface
6. Thermocapillary Instability of the Free Surface of a Plane Liquid Layer
7. Convective Instability of a Liquid Layer with a Permeable Partition
8. Thermocapillary Instability of Two–Layer Systems with Liquid–Liquid or Liquid–Gas Interfaces
9. Thermocapillary Instability in Multilayer Systems
10. Thermocapillary Convection of Constrained Interfaces
11. Thermocapillary Migration of Bubbles and Drops
12. Spreading and Layer Breaking Driven by the Marangoni Effect
13. Parametric Wave Excitation in Nonisothermal Liquid Layers
14. Thermocapillary Instability of a Liquid Interface Under the Joint Action of High Frequency Vibration and the Marangoni Effect

Index

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