Steady thermocapillary droplet migration under thermal radiation with a uniform flux
Autor: | Jia-Hao Gao, Zuo-Bing Wu |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Marangoni effect Steady state (electronics) Applied Mathematics General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy Reynolds number Flux Marangoni number Mechanics 01 natural sciences Method of matched asymptotic expansions 010305 fluids & plasmas Physics::Fluid Dynamics Surface tension symbols.namesake Thermal radiation Modeling and Simulation 0103 physical sciences symbols 010306 general physics |
Zdroj: | Microgravity Science and Technology. 33 |
ISSN: | 1875-0494 0938-0108 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s12217-020-09857-1 |
Popis: | Thermocapillary migration of a droplet under thermal radiation with a uniform flux is numerically investigated and theoretically analyzed. By using the front-tracking method, it is observed that thermocapillary droplet migration at small Reynolds numbers and moderate Marangoni numbers reaches a steady process. The steady migration velocity decreases as Marangoni number increases. The time-evolution behavior of temperature fields in the steady migration process is found to be a quadratic function, in which the linear rise of the steady state temperatures with the relative time is a main characteristics. The quadratic function behavior of the temperature fields is further used to derive the steady energy equations. From the steady momentum and energy equations, an analytical result at small Reynolds number and zero Marangoni number is determined by using the method of matched asymptotic expansions. The steady migration velocity decreases as Reynolds number increases, which is in qualitatively agreement with the numerical result. |
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