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Underdamped capillary wave caused by solutal Marangoni convection in immiscible liquids

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Using a Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes model with a capillary tensor to account for solutal Marangoni force, we observe an interfacial wave at the interface of two immiscible liquids. A Fourier analysis shows that the interfacial wave is induced by oscillatory modes of solutal Marangoni convection. A critical Marangoni number is defined above which the oscillatory modes of solutal Marangoni convection are able to occur. This material property is a function of the wave number for different Cahn numbers and is determined from numerical simulations.

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  1. Institute of Materials and Processes, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Moltkestrasse 30, 76133, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Fei Wang, Marouen Ben Said, Michael Selzer & Britta Nestler

  2. Institute of Applied Materials-Computational Materials Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Haid-und-Neu Strasse 7, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Fei Wang, Marouen Ben Said, Michael Selzer & Britta Nestler

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Wang, F., Ben Said, M., Selzer, M. et al. Underdamped capillary wave caused by solutal Marangoni convection in immiscible liquids. J Mater Sci 51, 1820–1828 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-015-9600-1

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